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Woolworths job loss announcement a difficult day for workers
Today’s announcement that Woolworths is removing 500 head office and supply chain jobs and closing 21 stores across the country will be difficult news for workers. Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association National Secretary Gerard Dwyer said the major supermarkets decision to shut down stores will have an impact on workers and their families, but the union will be working
Plan to halt worker exploitation welcomed
The Shorten Labor Party’s commitment today to cracking down on rogue franchisees and franchisors will help put an end to the horrific exploitation of workers at stores like 7-Eleven. SDA, the union for retail, fast-food and warehouse workers, said that while a wide range of measures need to be introduced in order to stop the exploitation of workers, today’s announcement
Statement from Gerard Dwyer, National Secretary of the SDA – re Coles decision
The SDA is extremely disappointed that Coles have not agreed to make undertakings as invited to by the Fair Work Commission. Undertakings could have addressed the anomalies identified by the Commission, and mean that an enterprise agreement that provides higher wages and benefits to the vast majority of employees would have remained in place. The 2014 Coles Agreement was endorsed
Fair Work finds majority of Coles workers better off
The Fair Work Commission has today determined that the recently negotiated Coles enterprise agreement should remain in place, confirming that the vast majority of Coles workers are better off. The Commission did however call on Coles to make some changes to ensure that the situation for a small number of workers, who have been found to have been inadvertently left
Statement from Gerard Dwyer, National Secretary of the SDA – re McDonald’s
The SDA is proud that McDonald’s workers are among the highest paid fast food workers in the world and enjoy strong rights and working conditions. Today’s article in Fairfax media fundamentally misunderstands the way in which collective bargaining takes place. Within the current enterprise bargaining framework it is common practice for workers to seek to significantly increase their base rate
