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There’s never been a better time: for women to join a union
Australian women need to join their union now more than ever writes SDA National Assistant Secretary Julia Fox. The union movement has been at the forefront of women’s rights in Australia since the beginning. When women entered the workforce out of necessity during World War II to defeating the Howard Government’s WorkChoices and the recent Fair Work decision on penalty
Why the FWC decision to cut penalty rates will impact all retail & fast food workers
Media statement | Thursday 2 March 2017 Reports in today’s The Australian (2/03/17) make incorrect claims about the role of enterprise bargaining and the impact of the FWC decision on workers. It has also been argued that the FWC decision on Sunday Penalty rates is no different to the union movement’s ‘rolling up’ of penalty rates during the process of
Cuts to penalty rates will cost retail and fast food workers more than $1 billion each year
The Fair Work Commission’s decision to cut Sunday and public holiday penalty rates means that retail and fast food workers will lose out on more than $1 billion each year while not creating a single extra job. SDA National Secretary Gerard Dwyer said that it was disgraceful Malcolm Turnbull has allowed the take-home pay of hundreds of thousands of retail
5 things all supermarket workers should know before uni starts
Heading to O’Week this week? Here’s some advice if you’re going to be balancing work and uni too. Change your availability at work If you’re a uni student, chances are you picked up an extra shift here or there over the summer. Now that uni is back – you need to update your availability with work so you don’t get
ALTERATIONS TO NATIONAL RULES 100217
Alterations to National Rules Members are advised that National Council in session has approved alterations to the rules of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association to correct obsolete references to repealed legislation and to amend gender specific references in the National Rules. A notice setting out particulars of the alterations of rules was lodged in the Fair Work Commission
