RAFFWU
@raffwu
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BREAKING: Woolworths and Coles have refused RAFFWU members living wages, safer workplaces & secure jobs. Our response - a National Strike of Supermarket Workers - a
#superstrike
- at 10am on Sat 7 Oct 2023 for 2hours.
#fightbackwithraffwu
#standupfightback
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Readings staff are excited to announce they are inviting management to negotiate with them to secure wages, penalty rates & great working conditions. This will be the first EBA in a non-uni bookshop, so this is a big day for the Oz book industry!
#BooksellersUnite
#ReadingsUnion
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McDonald's Port Macquarie (Highway) required staff to stay at work even when Fire Service alerts were saying to seek shelter for the arrival of the fire. Workers ended up walking out to help family and protect their own homes. McDonald's is putting the safety of its staff last!
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Workers at Better Read Than Dead taking industrial action as management reneged on promises for a new agreement. Don't cross the digital picket line (all web order work is banned) - join them Friday 19/11 5pm @ the Camperdown Memorial Park.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#StandUpFightBack
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Better Read Than Dead is locking out workers next week because of their campaign for job security and safer workplaces. The first retail workers locked out by their boss ever. Workers just want secure, safe jobs.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#StandUpFightBack
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Members have unanimously endorsed an in principle agreement last night with Better Read Than Dead. Direct action has delivered a landmark agreement – with historic conditions in the retail sector. More to come - thanks for the unwavering community support!
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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The first time
@McDonalds
has ever been prosecuted in Australia by workers and their Union. A landmark judgement securing a workplace right to toilet access and water, compensation for stolen breaks and exposing coercion of children.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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This morning heaps of workers supported
@readingsbooks
workers to call on the
#purportedlyprogressive
bookshop to
#stopthewagefreeze
. This is just the 1st action with workers to vote on protected industrial action soon.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
Get involved @
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The
#superstrike
at Coles and Woolworths kicks off this week and in this great interview with Jacobin, Delegate and new Union Committee Member Nelio lays out what it is all about. We are just getting started. Make history in RAFFWU!
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Union Busting is Always Disgusting. Workers at
@readingsbooks
have fought for a fair deal for 5 years. It only took one meeting for Readings to target and intimidate members of the RAFFWU Bargaining Team. Now we
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Please find RAFFWU statement in relation to actions at Better Read Than Dead.
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RAFFWU said the agreement, approved by the Fair Work Commission last week, was a landmark deal that increases hourly pay and restores Sunday penalty rates, provides 20 days paid domestic violence leave & 26 weeks paid parental leave.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Readings workers congratulate their comrades at Better Read Than Dead, who have overcome intense pressure to get mgmt to enter bargaining. The campaign for an EBA at Readings continues as workers lodge their case with the FWC to bring management to the table.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Coles and WW workers are striking for a fair deal - but they're paid poverty wages. They live week to week & need our support. We've launched a special campaign to build our strike fund. Please donate and share here:
#superstrike
#fightbackwithraffwu
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Brisbane Apple workers took over the microphone today with 40 walking out leaving Senior Management to explain to customers why nothing could be done.
"When I say Union, you say Power! Union! Power!"
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#fightforalivingwage
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Delegates met with
@ReadingsBooks
again today about enterprise bargaining. No further offer has been made including no offer to recommit to the agreement previously reached. The action tomorrow morning is proceeding as planned.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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McDonald's workers at Kincumber celebrating their first Paid Rest Breaks after RAFFWU members took action. If you work at Maccas and aren't getting paid breaks, join the fighting union!
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#maccasrevolution
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Apple workers are on strike tomorrow. Our members deserve weekends, living wages, secure rosters and fair conditions. This shows what it looks like when retail workers walk out. Tomorrow, they won't be showing up.
Support them at our Welfare Fund here:
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RAFFWU members at
@Apple
will be the first retail workers in Oz ever to
#ChristmasStrike
. Rostered on the whim of the boss without casual loading & Apple refuses to meet before Feb. Wworkers are left with no choice.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#applestrike
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Readings workers have stood together & voted to bargain in the landmark Majority Support Ballot! We are yet to hear if Readings will agree to bargain but guarantee we will be seeing through the case if they don't & making sure workers get to negotiate a satisfactory agreement.
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@__LeftistVegan
@SDAunion
85% of Kmart employees are casual... Almost the entire workplace. This is gross SDA propagandising for Kmart and in return Kmart will recruit the next batch of child labourers in SDA. Oh, 85% of the Kmart workforce is also under 21. Almost like they churn to exploit junior rates.
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To avoid doubt, there are a bunch of retail bosses who were told the
@VictorianCHO
recommendation & lobbied to prevent it. They were given the science & health advice and fought to stop it being applied in their shop.
@WorkSafeVictor
must investigate every one of them.
#springst
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Quick summary and meet locations for today’s National
#superstrike
:
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#fightforalivingwage
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RAFFWU members have been building a shopfloor campaign for months. When BRTD refused to bargain on 18 March the union stepped in and BRTD let loose on workers. We are not going anywhere and our campaign gets more determined every day.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Promising not to pay pay workers refusing to clean up the bosses vomit is "working collaboratively"
@Coles
. Its unprecedented attack on exploited workers being paid poverty wages is reprehensible.
#superstrike
#livingwageforall
#fightbackwithraffwu
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This morning the Federal Court of Australia handed down two important and eagerly anticipated judgements dealing with the SDA attempt to stop the Shine Lawyers McDonald's Class Action, which is supported by RAFFWU.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
Judgements at
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Domino's Pizza has lost their bid to stop a worker class action. The class action followed an investigation by RAFFWU and is brought by member Riley Gall. Instead of Award wages, workers were paid under a rotten SDA deal. More here:
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Breaking News: Today we are in the Federal Court prosecuting major McDonald's franchisee Tantex for coercing staff not to take paid rest breaks. They threatened to ban access to water and toilets. Workers have been denied rest breaks and sick leave too.
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Today the Court fined
@woolworths
for union busting. Members campaigned over a serious safety issue but then Senior Management targeted them. We fought back.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
The judgement is here:
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The Coles Gladstone crew on
#superstrike
! Our
#fightforalivingwage
and the agreement we deserve has taken off. So many members taking action for living wages, secure jobs and safer workplaces. We are just getting started!
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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@ExpertOracle
@deemadigan
@SDAunion
To be fair, he would have just signed and returned the employment forms
@maccas
gave him to complete.
#sdaforthebosses
#raffwufortheworkers
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A great summary of the historic campaign waged at Better Read Than Dead bookshop - a benchmark for bookshops and retail across Australia. Get organised and win.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#standupfightback
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Huge thanks to 100s of supporters who smashed the target for the Better Read Than Dead Welfare Fund. With workers being locked out we have increased the target. The support is overwhelming. Members are fighting 4 safety & job security.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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At 7:30pm AEST on Thursday night workers at Better Read Than Dead will share what they won and how they won it. Join by Zoom or Facebook Live. It's an inspiring story of collective action and solidarity. Watch history being made.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Workers
@woolworths
repped by RAFFWU are striking for living wages, safer workplaces & secure jobs. Any Woolies worker who applies to join RAFFWU & appoints RAFFWU their bargaining rep can join our nationwide
#superstrike
on Sat 7 Oct.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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he RAFFWU Queer caucus created this video for TDoV as a reminder to all that Trans rights are workers rights and fighting transphobia is union business. We all need to stand up and take it seriously. It’s time to fight for Trans Rights.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Coles started targeting every worker for bag checks as its poverty wages crunched on food price gouging. Join us at Melbourne Convention Centre from 9:30am 3/11 to rally against worker exploitation & community price gouging at the
@Coles
AGM.
#superstrike
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Last night Coles workers met & stood firm against
@Coles
promise to not pay anyone who refuses to clean the bosses dunny as part of protected industrial action. Our list of sites for members and supporters to come on Sat 7 Oct at the
#superstrike
is
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RAFFWU Committee and Workers share solidarity with the RTBU NSW in their fight against the anti-worker NSW & Federal Governments.
#solidarityforever
#StandUpFightBack
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Workers at Dan Murphy’s have been ripped off for years under the SDA deal. Now RAFFWU is at the bargaining table & our campaigns will return penalty rates & many other conditions which have been below Award. Our team includes the only workers at the table, such as James (centre)
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The median non-casual wage at Maccas is just $12.97 and for over 20,000 workers the rate is $8.64. Youth rates are used to make massive profits off the back of young workers. It's time they were abolished and we have Maccas in our sights.
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RAFFWU members at
@Apple
are striking again today for the most basic conditions. This $3 Trillion company claims to be progressive while refusing to treat workers with dignity.
#applestrike
#rosterjustice
#StandUpFightBack
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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The vast majority of workers at Better Read Than Dead were engaged on a casual basis. They secured the right to convert to ongoing employment. The best conversion rights in retail because workers took direct action. It’s that simple.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Today
@Apple
walked away from bargaining. Senior Management says the shoddy deal which pays workers less than minimum wages is 'good enough'. Vote No Because Good Enough Isn't.
#votenobecausegoodenoughisnt
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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We're going to court to ensure the law is applied properly. Workers should not be blocked from their fundamental right to organise and collectively bargain. Coles is desperate to stop workers securing a fair deal. SDA has helped them screw workers for decades
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Fantastic turnout in support of
@McDonalds
workers today in Brisbane! Great solidarity from
@CFMEU
,
@MaritimeUnionAU
, unite,
@_IWW
and other organisations. Historic first Australian union rally against McDonald’s practice of banning young workers from toilet and water breaks.
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Workers are standing up to fast-food giant, McDonald’s, in a class action led by Shine Lawyers. Employees allege they were not provided with 10-minute rest breaks that they were entitled to. Thousands of Australian workers have registered so far.
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They don't teach worker collective action in school. Everyone should know that organising our workplaces builds collective power. That power is used to strike - to withhold our labour from our employer -until the boss gives a fair wage.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#righttostrike
#auspol
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Workers at
@Apple
stopped work at 10, 11, 12 & 1 today for 15 minutes each time in their fight for a fair new agreement. Here are Chermside Apple members - thrown out of their break room by disrespectful Senior Management.
#applestrike
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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An oldy but a goody. When we are paid poverty wages, our bosses come up with all sorts of names for us. You can't bank a name but you can
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Says. It. All.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
I kept pulling down the SDA poster at work so they put a label on it pointing out that it's a company document
Not really sure what they're going for with that lmao
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Workers
@apple
are striking on Tuesday. Apple refuses to budge on inflicting conditions below the minimum Award. Old dodgy rotten agreements have stolen millions from Apple workers and they want to renew them.
#notonourwatch
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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At
@apple
, workers are treated as casual without a loading. No fair treatment and no living wages is in Senior Management's DNA. Workers are fighting back with members represented by RAFFWU striking on Tuesday and bans start Wednesday.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Workers have smashed the rotten
@Apple
deal at a margin of more than 2:1. Workers can now fight for the deal they deserve. Join the action.
Yet to join? Our All Apple Worker Meeting is on Wednesday night at 8pm AEDT.
#applestrike
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Beth has been campaigning for fair wages and conditions in the book industry. Here they write on RAFFWU member bookstore activism for Jacobin.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#stopthewagefreeze
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There is nothing progressive about Readings. It attacked its workers, their union and then the authors that supported them. A dodgy ballot gave ineligible workers votes while regular casuals were denied votes.
#profitisreadingsgod
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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APPLE STRIKE!
Today
@Apple
workers represented by RAFFWU have taken back their weekend. Apple insists workers must be rostered at its whim and across the week. Find out more about joining our action at
#takingbackourweekends
#fightbackwithraffwu
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Bunnings has decided to push ahead with a substandard deal after walking away from negotiations. It should be a much better agreement - and it can be. By voting no, you send a clear message that Bunnings needs to offer a much better deal. It's what Patrick is doing.
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Workers want to change their workplace’s for the better. The only way that is done is through direct responsible industrial action. Apple members are making a choice to strike for the agreement they deserve.
#applestrike
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Today
@woolworths
admitted in court to trying to union bust a safety campaign. The court heard
@SDAunion
was supporting the Store Manager to stop the campaign. SDA has always been for the bosses.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Voice of Action reports on what is behind the sellout of Fast Food workers by the SDA and ACTU - lots of cash (stolen from workers) and the power it brings.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Millions of workers had billions stolen from them by rotten SDA deals in retail & fast food. New IR laws will smash low paid workers. Don't believe the spin - here are our top 10 attacks on working people in the new IR laws.
#auspol
#savetheBOOT
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KFC is the second major food chain believed to have harmed workers by denying 10 minute rest breaks. Shine Lawyers and RAFFWU are partnering up in another joint investigation to launch a class action to bring justice to employees. To learn more:
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@bridgerollo
@MaryAnneThomas
@VictorianCHO
@abcmelbourne
We demand to know which retailers discouraged you to mandate masks. This is outrageous and you’ve put retail workers directly in harm’s way.
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Today 100 members of the Traralgon community came out to rally against Maccas and its failure to protect its child labourers from predators. Sarah is speaking out and we stand with her. This is far too common.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Woolworths workers were not going to cop assaults, threats, harassment or stalking anymore. Petitions became letterboxing. Then rallies. Then, finally, when workers continued to be assaulted, RAFFWU members walked off the job.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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RAFFWU members at
@Apple
unanimously endorsed their claims - the first ever Union claims made against Apple in Australian history. All Apple workers are invited to a meeting 25/8 to explain how industrial action works & why it matters.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Over 85% of Australian workers
@maccas
have no paid sick leave. PPE is woefully inadequate. Median wages are below $15 and the business profiteers off child labourers. Join the fight.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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"Woolworths is being sued on behalf of up to 1,400 employees who had their "world turned upside down" at the "height of the pandemic" when they were allegedly dragged into meetings and forced to take huge pay cuts."
#FightBackWithRAFFWU
@woolworths
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While we were making memes, the ABC wrote this piece about how the
#righttostrike
has been eroded and is the only path to higher wages for workers.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#auspol
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RAFFWU is the largest union in Apple stores and the only union taking workplace or Tribunal action. Workers have been denied the most basic rostering rights for almost 10 years. As always, the bosses SDA wants them to be denied those rights forever.
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Workers at
@Apple
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
We 100% believe their fear & drive for a non-union deal was all about industrial action. The only concessions we are going to get in the next few weeks are if they are concerned workers will take action after that.
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A freaking drink bottle?! Coles makes billions and starves out workers campaigning for living wages, safer workplaces and secure jobs. If
@Coles
really cared it would pay us a living wage for Christmas.
#superstrike
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#livingwageforall
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RAFFWU has joined with Shine Lawyers to investigate a potential class action against McDonald’s over the company’s failure to provide McDonald’s workers with full paid 10 minute breaks.
A potential class action is being prepared against McDonald's, with lawyers and workers' rights groups claiming the fast food giant failed to provide employees with paid rest breaks.
@KellyFedor
#9News
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The instant RAFFWU became aware Maccas were ripping workers off we acted - in November 2018. We rallied, we demanded, we sued. Every step by SDA has been late and entirely reactionary to RAFFWU winning for workers.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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RAFFWU has brought
@Apple
back to the bargaining table. 3 weeks to thrash out a deal. If not, members will not hesitate to take direct action in securing the agreement they deserve. Work at an Apple store? Join the power, join RAFFWU.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Out at Coles Traralgon Central in Gippsland with members also from Woolies stores! All on
#superstrike
! Our
#fightforalivingwage
and the agreement we deserve has earned the solidarity of union members and supporters across the country.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Oliver has been cleaning stores and collecting trollies throughout the pandemic but is paid minimum wages. Coles refuses to even talk about a fair wage and safe conditions.
Oliver's union, RAFFWU, is fighting back.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#colesbargainnow
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Woolworths made $969,000,000 in profit in the last 6 months. That's 969 million reasons they can backpay workers who they paid below the award because of their dodgy deal.
Read about our Woolworths campaign here
#nomoredodgydeals
#fightbackwithraffwu
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Save The Better Off Overall Test - Sign the Petition! via
@ChangeAUS
#auspol
#savetheBOOT
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Let's call a spade a spade. By keeping welfare at poverty levels,
@AlboMP
is starving families into putting their kids to work. It's disgraceful. 13 and 14 year old children should not be at work.
#auspol
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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RAFFWU stands in solidarity with the
@nswnma
as they fight for safety.
Stop telling us to cope. Give us the more nurses and midwives.
#ratios
#NursesStrike
@nswnma
@unionsaustralia
#nswpol
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RAFFWU has applied for Good Faith Bargaining Orders against Apple in the FWC. Our members deserve far better than the rushed rotten
@Apple
deal. Special all Apple worker Zoom meeting tonight at 7:30PM AEST:
#votenobecausegoodenoughisnt
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Serving our members and serving the public interest. Totally foreign concepts to the sycophantic sellouts at the SDA. While they beg, we fight.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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Comrade
@Utopiana
led a great discussion and session for
@raffwu
organisers in 2021. Stayed for dinner. Her insight, patience and comradely support for organising retail and fast food workers is what we call 'solidarity'.
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Junior rates cost workers under the age of 21 over $3.5 Billion per year. We're paid poverty rates so big business can bank billions.
#abolishjuniorrates
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#auspol
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"100s of
@Apple
workers in Australia are set to strike again after almost 2/3 of employees rejected a pay and benefits deal, the latest escalation of a fight that has seen weeks of walkouts at stores around the country."
#applestrike
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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The bosses at Factory X have refused to bargain - preferring workers be exploited on poverty wages in casual jobs and working in unsafe conditions. We aren't going to allow that to happen.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#livingwageforall
#abolishjuniorrates
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It's almost impossible for workers to take protected industrial action - to strike - for better pay and conditions. In other countries, workers have a right to strike. We need to return our
#righttostrike
so we can secure our own wage increases.
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
#auspol
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Why should workers pay any fee to an entity which cost them so much in pursuit of its radical anti-women, anti-queer and anti-worker agenda? Affiliate
@SDAunion
is responsible for helping bosses steal billions in wages from millions of workers.
Our analysis shows 30.7 per cent of private workers benefit from enterprise agreements yet just 9.5 per cent contribute union dues. Bargaining fees would prevent 'free riding', which is a critical contributor to wage stagnation, inequality and collective bargaining decline.
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FWC refused to approve the
@BRTDbookshop
agreement because the employer didn't explain it to workers. We've demanded they immediately put the agreement out to a new vote but the employer has gone silent. Help workers by demanding the boss put it to a new vote
#fightbackwithRAFFWU
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We've kicked off our campaign for workers to be paid their owed overtime. If you work at a Woolworths Online store & haven't been paid for all your online training complete our campaign form here & join the only union fighting for members.
#fightwithRAFFWU
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Big win for Apple workers in Glasgow. We look forward to joining them on the global picket line.
BREAKING: Glasgow Apple store workers have voted to become the first union-organised Apple store in the UK 🍎
Read more 👇
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The fatcats
@Coles
starving out workers who refuse to clean toilets or dare speak to customers about industrial action. A ruthless employer attacking essential worker heroes paid poverty wages. support our Strike Fund at
#superstrike
#fightbackwithraffwu
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