OSCA 2024 · 599941 · Skill level 3
Union Organiser: OSCA 599941
ABS OSCA 2024 v1.0 · visa lists checked 21 October 2026
Union Organiser is OSCA 2024 code 599941. It corresponds to ANZSCO 223113 Workplace Relations Adviser (in part), which is on the CSOL and ROL. Visa lists still use the ANZSCO code.
ANZSCO equivalent
ANZSCO code for OSCA 599941
Skilled visa lists still use ANZSCO codes, so this is the code that decides your visa options.
ANZSCO 223113 · in part
Workplace Relations Adviser
On the Core Skills Occupation List, Regional Occupation List.
Visas for ANZSCO 223113
The job
What an union organiser does
Oversees, organises and promotes union recruitment, operations, mass meetings and communications. Provides advice to union officials, delegates and representatives, and represents union members in industrial relations disputes or other proceedings. Acts on behalf of their union members to negotiate working conditions, wages and employment opportunities.
Skill level 3: Certificate IV, or Certificate III with at least 2 years of on-the-job training, or 3 years of relevant experience
Specialisations
- Union Official
Main tasks
Main tasks
- Oversees and promotes union operations
- Recruits new members to the union
- Advocates for reform or regulation of industry
- Provides advice to other union officials
- Develops effective structures, including union members' communications, at worksites
- Runs mass meetings with union members
- Identifies and develops new and existing delegates, and health and safety representatives
- Uses knowledge of legislation, awards, collective agreements, employment contracts and wage payment systems to represent union members in industrial relations disputes and assist in disciplinary proceedings, tribunals and courts
- Represents union members in negotiations or at conferences
- Visits union members at their place of work to check conditions
Unit group 5999
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Questions
OSCA 599941: common questions
What is the OSCA code for union organiser?
What is the ANZSCO code for OSCA 599941?
Is Union Organiser on Australia's skilled occupation lists?
Does Home Affairs use OSCA codes for visas?
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Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA 2024 v1.0 (CC BY 4.0); Department of Home Affairs, checked 21 October 2026. General information only, not immigration advice.
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