Comrades
This Saturday 6th December, at 12 noon, the long awaited Unite rally is
set to shake the foundations of dodgy hospitality bosses in Brunswick
St, Fitzroy.
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 interviews contact our office on 96399111 or
ring 0433113421
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