Union Archive

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  ‘Together’ an innovative new union launched - by Keith Locke

  
  
  
  An innovative new type of union organisation was launched today, known as ‘Together’. The new union is designed to allow thousands of otherwise isolated workers to find out what rights they have. This includes someone in a small shop, a farm labourer, taxi driver, IT worker or casual labourer.  It will connect isolated workers with others facing similar [...] read more
  May 4, 2011 10:18 am - 11 Comments
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  Stop bullying Parliament’s workers - by frog

  
  
  
  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 [...] read more
  October 30, 2009 1:06 pm - 5 Comments
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  Spotless and PSIS not giving employers a good name - by frog

  
  
  
  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 [...] read more
  April 3, 2008 10:15 pm - 1 Comment
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  Pay rises are easy if you use monopoly money - by frog

  
  
  
  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 action [...] read more
  December 19, 2007 3:08 pm - 1 Comment