BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON UNITE DAY OF ACTION FOR 6th DECEMBER 2003
Dear UNITE supporter
At 12 noon on Saturday 6th December the most aggressive workers'
campaign in recent times will be launched in Melbourne. Employers who
are ignoring their legal requirements re paying award minimum wage
rates, implementing Occupational Health & Safety Act in terms of a safe
workplace, undertaking unpaid trial work, discriminating against staff,
or not paying legal minimum superannuation or penalty rates will be
'Named and Shamed' and a boycott campaign begun against them in the
run-up to the luctrative Xmas period. The campaign is centering on the
Brunswick St, Fitzroy coffee shop strip but will later extent elsewhere.
In the run-up to the 6th December, UNITE activists are visiting every
shop and pub on the street, organising workers (see enclosed leaflet)
and presenting bosses with a form to read and sign (cosigned by two
staff members) to verify that they are sticking to their legal
obligations as employers.
Those who do (already 12 have signed) will receive the enclosed sticker
on December 6th. Those who don't will either go on a Yellow Card List
(questionable behaviour) or a Red Card List (grub list). On the 6th
December casual and permanent workers and UNITE activists will meet
outside Black Cat Cafe, 252 Brunswick St, Fitzroy at 12 noon, and march
to ethical shops to present their sticker, and also to grubby bosses to
undertake non-violent direct action and 'out'/'name and shame' them.
UNITE was established two months ago by casual workers in Melbourne. It
is based at a Trades Hall office in Carlton South.
For more information or to help the compaign contact our office on
96399111 or ring our co-ordinator Billie Brown on 0400898336
.
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