Professionals Australia
The national union for professionals across engineering, science, and architecture. Our primary union affiliation.
Our relationships
We work alongside unions, professional organisations, and advocacy groups in Australia and internationally.
Australian affiliations
Australian Council of Trade Unions
The peak body for Australian unions, representing nearly two million workers across every industry.
Parlour
Australian research and advocacy organisation for gender equity in architecture. Publishes the Parlour surveys on pay, workloads, and conditions.
Trade Unionists Landscape Architecture (TULA)
Australian landscape architecture workers organising on pay, hours, and conditions across allied practice.
Building Action Now
A built environment industry coalition calling on the Victorian Government to halt the demolition of Melbourne's public housing towers and retrofit them instead.
Architects Declare Australia
A network of Australian practices committed to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency.
International solidarity
The Architecture Lobby (TAL)
US
A US-based organisation advocating for the value of architectural labour. A key ally in the global movement for fair conditions.
Section of Architectural Workers (SAW)
UK
A section within UVW (United Voices of the World) organising architectural workers across Britain.
Future Architects Front (FAF)
UK
A UK collective of emerging architects challenging exploitative internship and employment practices.
ZKMB
Austria
Dear Architects
Belgium
Belgian Architects United (BAU)
Belgium
FNA
Brazil
KAIAIA
Finland
Architekt*innengewerkschaft
Germany
Kntxtr
Germany
Professional Union for Georgian Architects and Urbanists
Georgia
AKEA
Greece
sindikatdsn
Indonesia
Unione Lavoratrici e Lavoratori in Architettura (ULLARC)
Italy
Better Landscape Architecture (BLA)
Netherlands
Netherlands Angry Architects (NAA!)
Netherlands
Architectural Ethics NZ
New Zealand
The Night School
New Zealand
NZIA
New Zealand
antyRAMA
Poland
Zawód na A
Poland
Sintarq
Portugal
Stop Toxic Architectural Practices (STAP Network)
Spain
non-Swiss Architects
Switzerland
Research and Innovation On architecture, urban design and Territory (RIOT)
Switzerland
Archi en Colère
Switzerland
Uncomfortable Questions in Architecture
Turkey
Just Transition Lobby (JTL)
UK
Architectural Workers United
US
Exhibition and research
Academic partnerships
We collaborate with architecture schools and researchers on labour conditions research, salary surveys, and industry analysis.
Exhibition programme
We participate in exhibitions and public programmes that make architectural labour visible.
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