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Bakers not Delighted! http://bakersdelightcampaign.wordpress.com UNITE organiser Mel Gregson recently spoke to Diana Beaumont from 3CR’s Stick Together about the campaign for decent wages and conditions for Bakers Delight workers. Fair Work Australia rejects Bakers Delight Agreement After a months long process, Fair Work Australia has finally refused to approve a Bakers Delight Enterprise Agreement. The agreement would have covered the Diamond Creek, St Helena and Laurimar stores in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. |
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he National Farmers Federation says another 20,000 pickers are needed to harvest Australia's crops. Growers complain of fruit rotting on the ground. Backpackers and others are heading to farms on the promise of abundant work, only to find the promises are often empty and it costs them more in rent than they can earn. see comments: http://www.hostelz.com/hostel/35003-Victorias-Borderline-Backpackers Reporter, Brendan King. AUDIO http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2010/2902697.htm Also - awaiting podcast - community radio station 3CR industrial show STICK TOGETHER this morning had interview with Mohave Desert Borax miners strike organiser from ILWU about the battle with Rio Tinto. International solidarity helped win the dispute. see http://www.boraxminers.com/ Second part of the show interviewed a fellow from UNITE (retail and service industry union network) about international students exploited and underpaid at 7-Eleven store in Geelong http://7elevenworkers.wordpress.com/ AUDIO http://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether |
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ACTION: SUPPORT STRIKING JB Hi-Fi WORKERS! JB Hi-Fi workers solidarity action organised by UNITE: 12pm Saturday 8th May at JB Hi-Fi (206 Bourke st, City – near Russell st) Melbourne, VIC JB Hi-Fi staff at the company's Wellington (NZ) store are taking strike action as part of a Unite Union campaign to win higher wages for retail workers. These strikes are the first ever industrial action in over 27 years of the company's history! The Unite Union (NZ) has been negotiating with JB Hi-Fi management for over six months for a collective agreement but the Australian bosses are refusing to raise wages for staff this year. Most JB Hi-Fi workers are paid just above the minimum wage yet the Australian electronic retail giant JB Hi-Fi's net profit after tax is expected to be A$117 million to A$120 million this year. |
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BA strikes: Management ups its bullying as the dispute goes international
With strikes at BA looming this weekend, management have furthered its attacks on the workforce, while the airline faces international solidarity with BA workers.
With an election on the horizon, both main parties are attempting to outdo each other by attacking the BA cabin crew looking to defend their terms and conditions.
Gordon Brown, whose party's biggest donor is the Unite union, has called the strike “unjustified and deplorable”. The Tories, damaged by revelations over the embarrassing tax-dodging of their major donor, Lord Ashcroft, have claimed labour is hobbled by powerful unions, "the new militant tendency". Meanwhile, the media and business has clamoured for the government to stop the strike, which has a huge democratic mandate from Unite members.
BA management have upped the stakes by threatening to sack Unite shop stewards at the heart of the dispute. Seven members of Bassa (Unite's cabin crew branch) face disciplinary charges over their role, charges which BA has refused to drop in the course of negotiations.
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Bakers Delight at Low Wages, Poor Conditions In the case of Bakers Delight stores in St. Helena, Diamond Creek and Laurimar: No Penalty Rates, No Guaranteed Hours, No Sick Pay and No Holiday Pay. How Positively Delightful! http://www.unite.org.au/2009/10/26/bakers-workers-not-delighted/#more-339 The friendly sales assistants at Bakers Delight stores in St. Helena, Diamond Creek and Laurimar (Victoria, Australia) are currently negotiating a new workplace agreement. So far their employer, Wayne Price, has offered them an agreement that does away with penalty rates, guaranteed hours, sick pay and holiday pay in exchange for a tiny bit extra in the base rate. Mr. Price has also refused to include yearly pay increases to cover the cost of living. |
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WAGE SLAVE PLANET Part 457. http://www.theage.com.au/national/subway-probes-exploitation-20090824-ewji.html Ben Schneiders and Clay Lucas August 25, 2009 FAST food chain Subway will investigate and review its operations after claims that a Melbourne shop systematically failed to pay foreign trial workers. The Age revealed yesterday that Prateek Sahni, 23, is claiming more than $200,000 in penalties after he said he was not paid for more than 40 hours' work at the store at 1-5 Elizabeth Street in February. He also said he was required by his manager to do labouring, including the lifting of heavy stones, at a property near Sunshine, without pay. His lawyers, Maurice Blackburn, said other international students had made similar complaints about the same store. |
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In Melbourne outside Parliament train station approximately 1,000 leaflets were distributed in solidarity with jailed unionists in Iran from 7:30am to 9am on Friday 26 June More information: Victor Moore, Rail, Tram & Bus Union 0475 512 494 source AAWL on 3CR's 9am Saturday's Asia Pacific Currents radio show interview Saturday June 27th http://www.3cr.org.au/asiapac MUA members and officials joined around 300 unionists, workers and members of the Australian Iranian community outside the Iranian Embassy 25 Culgoa Circuit O'Malley 12 noon Friday 26 June in Canberra, protesting against the repression of workers' rights in Iran. Watch the video by MUA film maker and waterside worker COOPER SILK http://www.mua.org.au/news/mua-joins-international-protests-against-worker-re/ VIDEO of first action of the day of Global Solidarity NZ ITF unions at the protest rallyn outside the Iranian Embassy In Wellington NZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXcq3mghcms More regions and action see: http://www.justiceforiranianworkers.org/ Iran news on Labour Start http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/show_news.pl?country=Iran |
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Aussie unionists block traffic to support Zeal workers
Australian transport unions blocked the busy intersection outside Air New Zealand's Brisbane HQ on 3rd June in solidarity with the Zeal 320 crew. The solidarity protest by the Transport Workers Union, Maritime Union of Australia and the Rail, Tram and Bus Union came against the backdrop of the triennial Australian Council of Trade Unions congress and shows anger over Air New Zealand's behaviour toward workers in its subsidiary is spreading across the Tasman. VIDEOS Check out the "Air New Zealand Shame On You" chants & footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S1Oi1r0l3Q Zeal crew member and EPMU delegate Kirsty Barrett-Hamilton addresses the Australian solidarity protest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUF7sKeLwHU&feature=related PHOTOGRAPHS: http://www.flickr.com/photos/epmu/sets/72157619215305246/detail/ There's more, including speeches, at www.epmu.org.nz/youtube License public domainThis work is in the public domain. +++++++++++++++++ |
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The Union Show on Channel 31 ran a story about UNITE’s campaign against 7-Eleven. Click the link below to watch the clip on Blip TV it comes on after about 7 minutes. The particular show also looks at the situation facing DSE firefighters, construction worker safety and a tribute to a good friend of UNITE, Dave Kerin. We urge all of our members and supporters to check out The Union Show 7pm every Tuesday night on Cahnnel 31. Many thanks to the crew at SKA TV for producing such a fantastic show every week! http://theunionshow.blip.tv/#1977161 http://www.unite.org.au/ |
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