Sally McManus
Sally McManus (born 31 July 1971) is an Australian trade unionist, feminist and political activist who has served as the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) since 2017. She is the first woman to hold the position of Secretary in the ACTU's 90-year history. Prior to becoming Secretary she served as a Vice President and Campaigns Director.
Before joining the ACTU, McManus was the Branch Secretary and an organiser with the Australian Services Union (ASU) in NSW and the ACT.
Progressive Action conference
The Progressive Action conference was held in Melbourne April 6, 2019.
Sponsors included We Are Union, H, The McKell Institute, Australian Fabians.
Speakers were Sally McManus, Jay Weatherill, Fiona Patten MLC, Tarneen Onus-Williams, Nick Kent, Jessie Taylor, Van Badham, Dr. David Caldicott, Harriet Shing, Jess Walsh, Ben Veness, Fadak Alfayadh.
Timor Solidarity
On the twentieth anniversary of Timor Leste’s independence, Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA attended the official celebrations in the nation’s capital, Dili, where the Australian union movement was recognised for the important role it played in securing international support for Timor Leste.
Executive Officer Kate Lee and Timor Leste Country Manager Elisabeth de Araujo represented Union Aid Abroad – APHEDA at the celebrations, together in attendance with Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) President Michele O'Neil and Secretary Sally McManus.
Thomas Mayo and Martin Kingham were also there.[1]
"Change the Rules"
Ged Kearney, Elida Faith, Sally McManus, Emma White, Nadine Flood.
SEARCH VP
From The Australian:
- New ACTU secretary Sally McManus has a long involvement as a leading “activist” with the SEARCH Foundation, the wealthy organisation created to succeed the dissolved Communist Party of Australia. Ms McManus, touted as the most left-wing official to lead Australia’s union movement in modern times, is a former vice-president of the foundation.[2]
SEARCH AGM speaker
Search Progressive breakfast – Melbourne
Sally McManus and Tiernan Brady addressed SEARCH members at a progressive breakfast at Melbourne Trades Hall on 2nd of August 2017.
Tiernan was formerly the political director of the “Yes” campaign in the Irish marriage equality campaign and Sally is Vice President of the ACTU and spoke to the highly successful “22 marginals” campaign during the Federal election.
About 40 SEARCH members attended the breakfast meeting and several others have applied to join Foundation.[3]
SEARCH comrade
SEARCH Foundation vice president circa 2014.
Sally McManus has been a Director of the SEARCH Foundation since 1998. She has worked in the trade union movement for 13 years and was appointed as an Organiser with the Australian Services Union of NSW in November 1995.
She gained a thorough knowledge of a diverse range of industries during this time in both the private and public sector, and blue and white collar industries.
She was involved in organising and campaigning in the social and community services, information technology, shipping/travel, ports, local government, water and transport industries. She was appointed Assistant Branch Secretary in 2002, elected to the position of Executive President in 2003 and became Branch Secretary in 2005. She is a member of the ASU’s National Executive and has been a representative on the ACTU Executive.[4]
SEARCH colleague
'On Fairness' by Sally McManus - A review by Richard Archer.
An urgent message by an inspiring leader for all of us to organise in the defence of fairness.
Sally McManus, ACTU secretary and SEARCH colleague, has written a small, timely book on the topic of fairness in the MUP’s series Little Books on Big Ideas. It is a little book which I read in an hour. More of a lengthy address.[5]
Remembering Rob Durbridge
Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2013
Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2013 was organized by the SEARCH Foundation.
Participatory Forum II
Uniting to Fight the Abbott Coalition
- Panel: Sally McManus (ASU) a member of the NSW ALP Socialist Left.
- Cate Faehrmann MLC (Greens)
- Tad Tietze (Left Flank)
- (Labour Left TBC)
- Hall Greenland (Greens)
Workshop 13
Strategies for Stronger Trade Unions
Panel:
- Jim Casey (NSW FBEU)
- Sally McManus (ASU NSW/ACT)
- Rita Mallia (CFMEU NSW)
Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2010
Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2010.
Workshop 11
Better human services – the ongoing fight against neoliberalism in housing, education and welfare
- Panel: Senator Claire Moore (ALP)
- Angelo Gavrielatos (AEU)
- Sally McManus (ASU)
National Identity, Racism & Democracy
The 5th Sydney SEARCH Foundation left renewal roundtable - National Identity, Racism & Democracy - was held on on Saturday October 10 2009 at the NSW Teachers Federation, Meeting Rooms 1-3, Level 1, 23-33 Mary St, Surry Hills.
Speakers and Panelists: Lydia Miller, Prof Ghassan Hage, Sally McManus, Dr James Arvanitakis, Dr Christina Ho, Dr Lindy Edwards, Angelo Gavrielatos.[6]
Employment Rights Network
Employment Rights Network was established in 2008 by SEARCH Foundation connected activists.
...so join in the Employment Rights Network.
- The campaign against WorkChoices was one of the main reasons for the defeat of the Howard Government. Yet employers and Coalition MPs are still pressing for continuing WorkChoices provisions in the negotiations for Labor’s industrial relations reforms, despite the Minister’s mandate to introduce change.
- The new Government says that it will fully implement all its election commitments. It is clear that the commitment on Rights At Work will not be delivered without a strong campaign. The employers, the media commentators, and the conservative think tanks are trying to undermine the commitments now. Labor’s weakness in the Senate will be used to justify the need for compromise. Even with full implementation of the new Government’s commitments the labour movement has plenty of work to do in coming years to fully establish our rights at work.
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Authorised by: Sally McManus (Secretary, ASU Services NSW), Julius Roe (National President AMWU), Louise Connor (Victorian Secretary MEAA), Angelo Gavrielatos (Federal President AEU), Susan Hopgood (Federal Secretary AEU), Rob Durbridge (Industrial Officer AEU), Maree O'Halloran (President NSW Teachers Fed), John Irving (General Secretary NSW Teachers Fed), Richard Shearman (Secretary NSW/ACT Independent Education Union), Dave Oliver (National Secretary AMWU), Paul Bastian (NSW Secretary AMWU), Brian Manning (retired MUA), Sonia Laverty (Sociologist), Peter Murphy (SEARCH Foundation), Adrian Shackley (solicitor), Cathy-May Gill (AMWU), Donna Sargent (AMWU), Anthony Forsyth (researcher), Fran Hayes (trainer), Scott Batchelor (AMWU), Darren Hanisch (AMWU), Noel Willis, Asian Women at Work Action Group (Sydney).[7]
SEARCH VP
SEARCH board
SEARCH Foundation board, as of 2004:
- President: Richard Walsham;
- Vice-President: Louise Connor;
- Treasurer: Adam Farrar;
- Members: Brian Aarons, Greg Giles, Judith Klepner, Sally McManus, Richard Archer, Leonie Short, John Wishart.
- Appointed Secretary: Peter Murphy[8]
NOW WE THE PEOPLE
In July 2001, endorsers of the SEARCH Foundation's NOW WE THE PEOPLE conference in Sydney included Sally McManus.
Communist mentors
In Sally McManus’s development as a unionist, her mentors were Tas Bull and Tom McDonald, in particular.[9]
A JUST REPUBLIC ticket, 1999
- NSW: Pat O'Shane (magistrate), John Maitland (union leader), Patrick Thompson (environmentalist), Ben Slade (legal worker), Sally McManus (union organiser), Dorothy McRae-McMahon (Uniting Church Minister), Lee Silva (Chairperson, Redfern Aboriginal Corporation).