Workplace Relations

Ireen Prakash (left), Irene Kramer (centre) and Elizabeth Anderson feel abandoned by the National Union of Workers.

Sacked airport workers say their union abandoned them

A group of former Sydney airport duty free employees have complained the National Union of Workers abandoned them at a time when the union's former officials and employees were questioned about the use of union credit cards to buy tens of thousands of dollars in personal shopping items.

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Japanese may need to work until they're 80

Economists say that if Japan wants to alleviate its worsening labour shortage, it needs a whole lot more people working well into their 70s.