Harassment, unpaid overtime, below award wages and irregular shifts, sound familiar? Fast food, retail and hospitality workers have been on the wrong side of the system for many years. But for John Howard these levels of exploitation are not enough. His new industrial relations laws further attack Australia’s lowest paid workers, many of whom are under the age of 25.
Pakistan Earthquake Relief Benefit Gig
Featuring full punk line up including - Away From Now, Bad Day Down (QLD), The Arch Rivals, Yidcore, None the Wiser, The Defiance Report, and The Teddy Royals.
$5 entry All Ages, Sunday 2nd April 2006, 12noon - 7pm.
BLF Hall 8 Orr St Carlton South. Proudly sponsored by UNITE.
All funds raised on the day will go to the Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan
For more info contact 93281555
Welcome to the new look UNITE website.
The site now has much more content on it and is easier to navigate. It also now has some older achival material that has not been previously available on line. Unite looks forward to continuing the fight against casualisation and low pay in 2006 and is currently planning the stepping up of this work.
Continue to watch this space for more of the exciting details…….
For the past four months workers have been asking ‘what’s the next step in the campaign against Howard’s IR laws?’. After much debate finally the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) have called another mass nation wide rally on June 28.
By Anthony Main, UNITE Organiser
The Federal Government’s new anti worker industrial relations regime will begin next week after Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews unveiled the ‘WorkChoices’ regulations over the weekend.
As the Howard governments’ Industrial Relations legislation approaches its implementation date, workers have received further confirmation that the union movement was correct when they warned these laws will mean nothing but major cuts to wages, conditions and safety standards in the workplace.
By Antony Alder, UNITE Melbourne