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  • proper noun Acronym of Australian Council of Trade Unions.

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Examples

  • Part of Hawke's work at the ACTU was the presentation of its annual case for higher wages to the national wages tribunal, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Part of Hawke's work at the ACTU was the presentation of its annual case for higher wages to the national wages tribunal, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission.

    [whither america] whither the west 2008

  • Former Rudd and ACTU adviser set for top ALP post A FORMER Kevin Rudd spin doctor who helped drive the "Your rights at work campaign" for the ACTU is the new frontrunner to become ALP national secretary.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • I note that the ACTU was a key proponent of that progressive policy shift as it was in so many of the important economic reforms of the Hawke / Keating Governments and no doubt will be under the Rudd Government also.

    Australian Government Media Releases [All Portfolios] 2008

  • But I think you'd find a number of delegates, some of the older ones, even older than me, who in earlier years when Bob was chair of the ACTU trying to get into Parliament and then Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister who weren't necessarily unambiguously lacking in criticism of his time.

    Interview - Sky News 2009

  • Instead of listening to ACTU president Sharan Burrow chide bankers and corporate CEOs for ``filling their own pockets'', they should have wandered deeper into the park to the bronze statue of an ideological soulmate in Kensington Gardens.

    There was much on the radio... Joanna Bogle 2009

  • He attained such success and prominence in this role that in 1969 he was encouraged to run for ACTU President, despite the fact that he had never held elected office in a trade union.

    [whither america] whither the west 2008

  • Higgins, for instance, who makes fun of the Distributists, and at the ACTU, the members of which are our very good friends.

    All the Way to Heaven is Heaven 2008

  • He attained such success and prominence in this role that in 1969 he was encouraged to run for ACTU President, despite the fact that he had never held elected office in a trade union.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Working Life Program adopted by the ACTU and run by the Australia Council in its pre-Howard years.

    Unions and the Australian Folk Revival 2007

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