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.

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