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	<description>the fighting union for fast food and retail workers in Victoria</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Step up the fight against casualisation!</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2012/03/22/step-up-the-fight-against-casualisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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6 months and you&#8217;re permanent! 
In the past month the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has been  conducting an inquiry into casual work. The aim of the inquiry was to  collect information from workers, unions, community groups and academics  about the conditions of casual, temporary and contracted workers.
It looks at which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big business continues attack on penalty rates</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2012/02/28/big-business-continues-attack-on-penalty-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently there has been a lot of pressure from big business to cut penalty rates. These calls are an attack on the wages of many workers, especially those who work in hospitality, fast food and retail. Penalty rates are higher rates of pay you must be paid for when you work nights, weekends and public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bartenders win penalty rates and secure work</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2012/02/01/bartenders-win-penalty-rates-and-secure-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITE members at the Carlton Club in Melbourne’s CBD have won secure jobs for every single worker in the establishment. After months of anti-union bullying the persistence of the bartenders has paid off.





Every single worker at the Carlton Club – including the bussies – has been moved from casual to part-time and will now receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Striking Baiada workers set the example for international students</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/11/16/striking-baiada-workers-set-the-example-for-international-students/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/11/16/striking-baiada-workers-set-the-example-for-international-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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UNITE members, organisers and activists have been down at the Baiada Poultry picket line, supporting striking factory workers in their fight for safe working conditions, a 5% pay rise and an end to casualisation and off the books work.
Baiada is a disgrace. At this Laverton North factory there are daily injuries, workers can get paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Carlton Club backpays worker $3,800 – bartenders continue the fight for penalty rates</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/11/09/the-carlton-club-backpays-worker-3800-%e2%80%93-bartenders-continue-the-fight-for-penalty-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITE members at the Carlton Hotel have been fighting for the minimum wage and penalty rates, in the face of anti-union bullying and blatant lies from management and the boss.
Workers at the Carlton – a hugely popular CBD bar – have been getting paid well below the minimum wage for years. A group of bartenders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNITE Letter of Support to Occupy Melbourne</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/10/14/unite-letter-of-support-to-occupy-melbourne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/10/14/unite-letter-of-support-to-occupy-melbourne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends,
UNITE would like to extend its warm support to Occupy Melbourne.
Our members are low-paid workers in retail and hospitality, who feel the destructive force of capitalism on a daily basis. Retail bosses, despite high profits, recently began campaigning for the legal minimum wage to be even further reduced to keep profits soaring.

The occupations all around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knight report changes welcome but insufficient</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/10/08/knight-report-changes-welcome-but-insufficient/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has softened some of the harshest aspects of legislation relating to international students at work. The recent Knight report, which criticised the mandatory cancellation of visas for students who work more than 20 hours in a week, clearly put some pressure on the government to clean up its treatment of foreign students.
 The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail bosses step up attacks on workers</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/08/31/retail-bosses-step-up-attacks-on-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retail bosses, crying poor over online competition, are now openly saying that driving down wages is their key to increasing profits.

The National Retail Association is proposing reducing the retail minimum wage by 10%, scrapping penalty rates for nights and Saturdays, reducing penalty rates on Sundays and cutting the minimum shift to one hour.




The Productivity Commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNITE gets results on Brunswick Street</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/08/03/unite-gets-results-on-brunswick-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/08/03/unite-gets-results-on-brunswick-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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UNITE’s Brunswick Street campaign has won some real victories. UNITE organisers and volunteers visited stores along Brunswick Street on Saturday to let members and other workers know about the successes so far, and what they can do to win Award wages, penalty rates and safe conditions.
Workers on the street were impressed with the union work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Work cuts minimum shift for young workers</title>
		<link>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/06/22/fair-work-cuts-minimum-shift-for-young-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unite.org.au/2011/06/22/fair-work-cuts-minimum-shift-for-young-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers have succeeded in their cynical attempt to reduce the minimum shift for young retail workers. Fair Work Australia this week ruled that the minimum three-hour shift be reduced to 1.5 hours.

Business leaders have touted this as a victory for both employers and workers. This could not be further from the truth. A casual worker [...]]]></description>
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