Safety in numbers: Union membership growing in Australia
- Campaign, Membership, News
- 10 December 2024
In December 2024, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released data showing union membership in Australia is up by a considerable margin. In the past two years union membership has grown by more than 200,000, taking the number of workers in the trade union movement to 1.6 million, or 13 per cent of the Australian workforce.
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