Union Archive

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    Stop bullying Parliament’s workers



    Parliamentary Service has been trying to force the hard working, poorly paid support staff of Parliament to take cuts to their pay package. These are not the ‘political’ staff – they are the people who do things like security, messenger services, and building maintenance at Parliament. As is only fair, the staff have been resisting cuts [...] read more
    October 30, 2009 1:06 pm - 5 Comments
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    Spotless and PSIS not giving employers a good name



    Occasionally employers get up to some very strange things. First we have Spotless Cleaning company which last year had to be compelled to accept a nationwide deal that everyone else in the health sector had signed up to, to raise the living wages of cleaners and cooks in our public hospitals. Nine months after that dispute [...] read more
    April 3, 2008 10:15 pm - 1 Comment
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    Pay rises are easy if you use monopoly money



    Bunnings workers trying to negotiate a new collective agreement with their Australian employer were apparently offered petrol vouchers and a Monopoly board game to go with their 0% pay offer. The workers have been protesting the pay offer since last week, with workers at the company’s Newtown store becoming the eleventh store to take [...] read more
    December 19, 2007 3:08 pm - 1 Comment