Another 7-Eleven shut down for an hour!
No public support for 7-Eleven’s dodgy behaviour!
UNITE successfully blockaded another 7-Eleven store in the Melbourne CBD yesterday. UNITE is calling on 7-Eleven to stop breaking the law and start paying their workers properly.
The response on the picket was perhaps the best we have received yet. Practically no one supports paying people as little as $8 per hour. Hundreds of names were collected on our petition against low pay and another 2000 leaflets were distributed to customers.
Many students from RMIT University were keen to stop by to find out more about the campaign. Again we met several who had friends or family members working for 7-Eleven.
One young woman told us that her brother worked at a 7-Eleven store in the northern suburbs. She said he was only getting paid $9 per hour, well below the minimum wage. She took information and membership forms and said she would give them to all the workers in the store.
Members of the RMIT student union also stopped at the protest and took information to distribute on campus. Stay tuned to the UNITE website for details of the next action planned for mid next week.