Category: News

There’s no doubt that Puto 2 construction workers deserve fair pay, safe conditions, and strong representation. But what happens when an organisation apprising to lead that fight starts selling dreams that sound good in a Facebook post but fall apart under the weight of reality? The Offshore Alliance – a collaboration between the AWU and […]

The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) posted to its socials that it has launched a landmark industrial bid that could see labour hire maintenance technicians working at Chevron’s Gorgon LNG facility on Barrow Island receive a pay rise of up to $80,000 a year. In a regulated labour hire arrangement application filed with the Fair Work […]

The Price of Betrayal and Silence: How the Offshore Alliance Leadership Sold Out Australian Workers for a Training Slush Fund That Became a Labour Hire Company By all accounts, the WA branch of the Maritime Union of Australia — which forms the leadership of the Offshore Alliance — claims to defend Australian jobs and fight […]

The leadership of the Offshore Alliance is quick to attack the AMWU over the 2017 agreements, yet if we turn the clock back another five years, it was the very same Offshore Alliance leadership that was instrumental in stripping nearly $900 per week from construction workers through project-specific agreements – starting with the INPEX project. […]

In an embarrassing backdown that strikes at the heart of the Offshore Alliances’ ambitions to dominate representation across Australia’s offshore oil and gas industry, the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) and its joint venture front, the Offshore Alliance, have quietly capitulated in a legal standoff that threatened to unravel their long-claimed coverage of offshore workers. The […]

Grab your calculators, folks — it’s time for another round of “Offshore Alliance vs Reality”. The stakes are high, the maths is wild, and the hypocrisy is thicker than a Bechtel concrete pour. Earlier last week, the Offshore Alliance took to Facebook (again) to wage war on the AMWU, CFMEU and ETU for — wait […]

The Offshore Alliance—a partnership between the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA)—has built its brand on being the loudest voice in the room for offshore oil and gas workers. Quick to condemn other unions for signing so-called “substandard” enterprise agreements (EAs), the Alliance has carved out a reputation as a […]

The Offshore Alliance’s latest outburst on Facebook is as self-serving as it is hypocritical. While loudly condemning others for so-called “sell-out” deals, they conveniently ignore their own signature on the Pluto 2 Greenfields Agreement—a deal that many workers have criticised for locking in substandard rates and as we’ve pointed out in the Pluto Train 2 […]

Every week, unions see the consequences of a broken bargaining system. Workers come through our doors with contracts drafted by corporate lawyers, issued en masse by major employers, and signed under pressure—with no room for real negotiation. These are not agreements—they’re ultimatums. The power imbalance couldn’t be clearer. Unless you’re a CEO like Mike Henry […]

On 13 June 2024, the Offshore Alliance published a Facebook post brimming with outrage and hyperbole, claiming that the AMWU had “ripped the guts out of employment standards” in a 2016 Greenfield Agreement signed with Kuiper Construction. They alleged that $2,500 per week was stripped from workers’ pay and painted a dramatic picture of allowances […]