Media Releases

GOVERNMENT SLASHES HELP FOR REDUNDANT TCF WORKERS22-Oct-2012

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) has strongly condemned the Federal Government for slashing $7 million available for redundant workers in the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industry to secure alternativ..

TCF OUTWORKERS WIN NEW RIGHTS 23-Mar-2012

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) today celebrated a new law which will provide important and long overdue national protections for outworkers and sweatshop workers in the TCF industry. The Fair Work Ame..

Life Before and After the Factory Gates Shut08-Mar-2012

Cottontales: Bonds in Cessnock 1947-2009 is an exhibition of stories, photographs, and film of 80 workers retrenched from Pacific Brands’ Bonds in December 2009 as well as previous generations of workers who had worked at Bon..

SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS DIRECTLY FROM CLOTHING OUTWORKERS 02-Feb-2012

The Senate Education Employment and Workplace Relations Legislation Committee sitting in Melbourne today, as part of its Inquiry into the Fair Work Amendment (Textile Clothing and Footwear Industry) Bill 2011, has heard directly fr..

Outworker Laws Attacked Because They Work24-Oct-2011

The national union which represents workers in the textile, clothing and footwear industry today hit back at the campaign by industry body, the Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA) to diminish legal protections for wo..

Snapshot of the Real Effect of Job Loss06-Oct-2011

MEDIA ALERT TCFUA MEDIA CONFERENCE BEFORE JOBS FORUM SNAPSHOT OF THE REAL EFFECT OF JOB LOSS 8.30am, Thursday 6 October 2011 Room 2R1, Parliament House, Canberra Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Aust..

TCF Workers Call on Miners to Buy Aussie Made 19-Sep-2011

Workers from the textile, clothing and footwear industry are rallying with their supporters to urge the mining industry to support the local TCF manufacturing industry and local Australian jobs. The workers will protest outside BHP..

High End Fashion, Low End Ethics: Clothing Workers Action20-Jun-2011

Clothing workers will take to Melbourne's streets today to demand that high end fashion brand Scanlan and Theodore do the right thing for clothing workers who lost their jobs, pay and entitlements when its major supplier went into ..

ILLAWARRA BONDS & KING GEE WORKERS LAUNCH AN EXHIBITION 08-Jun-2011

RETRENCHED ILLAWARRA BONDS & KING GEE WORKERS LAUNCH AN EXHIBITION TELLING ABOUT LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER THE FACTORY GATES SHUT Work on the Line: the workers who made Bonds and King Gee in the Illawarra ..

HOLEPROOF WORKERS’ STORIES TOLD IN AN EXHIBITION OF FILM, PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXT22-Jul-2010

Heroes of Holeproof: workers looking back, moving forward is an exhibition of film, photographs and stories of life and work and is a tribute to the 255 textile workers retrenched from the Pacific Brands’ Holeproof site in 20..

NOT A GOOD FEELING13-Jul-2010

Workers at a components supplier to Toyota have been on strike since 1 July 2010. The workers who are members of the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) say that their employer Kennon Auto have been threa..

TEXTILE UNION CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO COMMIT TO SOURCING ALL DEFENCE UNIFORMS FROM ETHICAL AUSTRALIAN12-Feb-2010

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) today welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment not to source camouflage material used in soldiers’ uniforms from China. The TCFUA is urging the governmen..

PACIFIC BRANDS ATTEMPTS TO SECRETLY SEND MACHINERY OFF SHORE20-May-2009

Unions and community supporters are protesting in Melbourne today. Following the announcement in February this year of Pacific Brands decision to sack 1,850 workers and move their clothing production off shore, unions warned th..

PACIFIC BRANDS WORKERS DEMAND GOVERNMENT PUTS ITS MONEY WHERE ITS MOUTH IS06-May-2009

Workers from all seven Pacific Brands sites due to close, are today demanding the Government take immediate action in the Federal Budget on the future of the TCF industry. At a national meeting of Pacific Brands workers and the..

TEXTILE WORKERS DEMAND 100% ENTITLEMENT PROTECTION05-May-2009

Workers from Melba Textiles, where 170 jobs are to be lost following the company going into liquidation late last week, are rallying with their supporters in Geelong today to demand the payment of $9million of their entitlements. T..

WORKERS LOSE JOBS AND ENTITLEMENTS WHILE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLAN30-Apr-2009

Victorian based manufacturer Melba Textiles was today placed into liquidation owing workers approximately $9 million in entitlements. 170 workers based in Geelong and Thomastown will lose their jobs within the next month along ..

OPEN LETTER TO PAT RAFTER, SARAH MURDOCH, MICHAEL CLARKE04-Mar-2009

Dear Pat, Sarah and Michael, As you are no doubt aware the employers at Pacific Brands, after being granted millions in Government funding are planning to sack nearly 2000 of their workforce. Their motive for these sackings ap..

UNION ASKS RAFTER TO GIVE PACIFIC BRANDS A SERVE04-Mar-2009

In the next stage of its campaign to save the jobs of Pacific Brands’ workers, the Textile Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia (‘TCFUA’) has released an open letter, launched an email campaign and announced..

TCFUA SLAMS ASEAN FTA02-Mar-2009

The Textile Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) earlier today slammed the weekend’s announcement by Trade Minister Simon Creen that a Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN countries had been signed. TCFUA Nationa..

MEETING HELD AS UNION CONTINUES PACIFIC BRANDS JOB FIGHT27-Feb-2009

The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia met today with the Industry Minister Kim Carr and the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Pacific Brands, Sue Morphett and James Mackenzie. The meeting was convened by Minister ..