The Union Greens Victoria (UGV) was established in 2025 as a movement of unionist members. We act as the bridge between the Victorian Greens and the labour movement, pursuing working-class interests across legislation, policy, party operations, and through direct action in the community and our workplaces.
The UGV’s work is grounded in a radical politics that seeks to rebuild the coalition of local community organisers, radical environmental activists, and militant unionists which led the industrial action now known as the Green Bans. We recognise the work of those coalitions as instrumental to the formation of our party, and Greens parties across the world.
Our aims are to:
- Always work in the interests of the working class;
- Promote a more synergistic relationship between environmentalism and unionism;
- Promote, within an intersectionalist lens, a more class-conscious party, while actively rejecting class reductionism;
- Encourage and empower union members to reform their unions;
- Challenge union-busting messaging and tactics within and outside the Party, including forced administration;
- Ensure a labour movement that welcomes all unions that operate in the interest of the working class, including but not limited to, union-affiliated NGOs, and unions which represent:
- unemployed workers;
- Renters; and
- First Nations people;
- Support and empower workers from marginalised groups to exercise and uphold their right to a workplace free from discrimination and exploitation, and provide appropriate support and accommodations.
- Promote the decriminalisation of sex work and encourage the unionisation of its workers; and
- Fight for a Trades Hall and peak bodies within the unions that do not include the police or their representatives, due to the inherent conflict of interest.