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Japan’s Honeys, Apologize and #PayYourWorkers
https://www.change.org/p/japan-s-honeys-apologize-and-payyourworkers
from Clean Clothes Campaign East Asia
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Strike over as Woolworths workers accept new offer from supermarket giant
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/woolworths-industrial-action-victoria/104697608Strikes work.
Industrial action works.
Unions work for the workers.
Woolies is no friend of workers.
The Fair Work Commission is not fair.The United Workers Union got Woolies management to finally agree not to punish workers for their speed of work, and to give workers a boost in wages.
The "framework" that Woolies was trying to foist on its warehouse workers would have required warehouse staff to achieve a 100% performance and speed.
The union called it "dangerous, inhumane and unsafe". I consider it unrealistic for humans, dangerous for robots, and certain to cause injuries to anyone nearby in a short time. Think about it for a moment you'll see it was absolutely bonkers and whoever proposed it should be sacked for posing such a dire OH&S risk.
This debacle has shown that the Fair Work Commission is not fair and impartial.
Furthermore, Woolies has blown millions of dollars to show everyone they're no friend of workers.I urge you to continue your boycott of Woolies, and start campaigning to have the Governor General clear-out LNP stooges from the FWC.
#AusPol #BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #UnitedWorkersUnion #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline #FairWorkCommission
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Woolworths wins Fair Work Commission bid against United Workers Union
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-06/woolworths-lawyer-accuses-union-of-metaphorical-gun/104692632This is grim news for Woolies workers.
And, it sets a bad precedent. Other large retailers with distribution centres around Australia will be looking at this news and thinking they can screw their workers the same way and not face a picket-line outside their warehouses.
It's also worth noting that the Fair Work Commission has been stacked by LNP cronies over the last few years when the LNP were in government and had power over appointments. I'm sure many people at the Fair Work Commission try to be impartial, but it shouldn't come as a surprise when they sometimes make decisions that favour big business. The LNP has a long history of undermining "independent umpires" -- workers at Woolies and the United Workers Union are not on a level playing field.
The good news is that the United Workers Union is likely lodge an appeal, so they're still in with a fight.
My personal boycott of Woolies remains in place -- my partner & I are instead shopping at other supermarkets and local grocers, and we're thinking of making the boycott permanent. I suggest you show solidarity with the workers and boycott Woolies.
#AusPol #BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #UnitedWorkersUnion #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline #FairWorkCommission
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'We're deeply sorry': Woolworths CEO lies to customers about bare shelves as she vows to screw-over workers
(fixed the headline for you)
https://www.9news.com.au/national/woolworths-strike-ceo-amanda-bardwell-doesnt-know-when-shelves-will-be-restocked/ef4bdd69-fe1d-42be-8729-cf82bc69be2bWoolworths CEO Amanda Bardwell could end the strike any time she wants. She could get the workers back to work and have supermarket shelves restocked quickly. Instead, she's choosing to prolong the industrial action, further emperil negotiations with workers, and inconvenience customers across Victoria, NSW, and the ACT.
#BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline
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Woolworths says ongoing strike has already cost it $50 million in lost food sales
https://www.9news.com.au/national/woolworths-strike-grocery-giant-lodges-application-to-stop-union-workers-blocking-access-to-distribution-centres/ca95e872-3808-4e6b-ad1a-f3f7fd135fb1Suck shit, Woolies — you should have negotiated in good faith with the unions and offered your workers reasonable pay and conditions.
Can you imagine how much better the outcome would have been for everyone if Woolies had put that $50 Million into workers' pay-packets instead of attempting to break the strike with scab labour?
#BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline
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Woolworths uses scab labour in distribution centre amid ongoing strike
(fixed the headline for you)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/01/woolworths-to-reopen-distribution-centre-to-get-essential-items-on-shelves-amid-ongoing-strikeBoycott Woolies!
Woolies has resorted to bringing in scab labour rather than talk to workers who are asking for better pay & conditions, and job security.
#BoycottWoolies #Scab #StrikeBreaking #Woolies #Woolworths #Unions #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline
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Woolies has turbofucked its online shopping.
In response to awful management practices, and their refusal to treat the needs of workers seriously, Woolies workers have begun industrial action. Their strike is starting to bite in ways that customers are starting to notice.
In store, there are gaps appearing on the shelves. Online, it's an absolute shambles. About half of our weekly shopping order is listed as out of stock.
As you'd recall from peak pandemic years, a small interruption to logistics can have a large flow-on effect. When goods produced by one brand become unavailable, shoppers look for alternatives. Some shoppers stock-up as a precaution against possible future unavailability. Before you know it, the shelves are bare, and the supply-chain problem spreads to other shops in the region.
Woolies has been making record profits because it's price-gouging customers, but at the same time it's been refusing to give staff a reasonable pay rise, and it's been pushing workers onto casual contracts with fewer hours. Job insecurity is a major factor that's led to the Woolies strike.
And, let's not let Coles off the hook. Coles has been doing the same as Woolies. The only difference is that Coles' workers aren't on strike for better pay and conditions. Yet.
Curiously, there's been little mention of this in the mainstream media. Here's something that the ABC published a week ago:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/woolworths-warehouse-workers-strike-action-supply-chain/104628380If you want to show solidarity with the workers at Woolies (or just want to spare yourself disappointment from seeing stuff out of stock), don't order online at Woolies, and don't go into a Woolies supermarket. Shop elsewhere. Shop at local, independent grocers.
#Woolies #Woolworths #Coles #PriceGouging #Unions #PayYourWorkers #IndustrialAction #WooliesStrike #WooliesOnline
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Over 1,200 garment workers making 'fast fashion' for companies like BooHoo in Leicester, UK, were illegally underpaid over the last five years with wages of £3- £5 an hour because they struggled to find work &could not speak English.
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Australian farms hoodwinking Indonesian tourists on Work and Holiday visas by forcing them to do manual labor and live in abject conditions.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-13/indonesian-work-and-holiday-visa-scammed/104441386
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Haitian migrant workers sleep 8 to a room in Greeley, Colorado, in order to work at factories operated by JBS, world’s largest meatpacking company. "It was worse than being in jail."
https://www.wsj.com/business/immigrants-haitian-jobs-meatpacking-eb174d69
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P&O Ferries spent over £47 million to fire hundreds of UK seafarers in 2022 & replace them with contract migrant workers.
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Carmaker Stellantis (makers of Fiat and Jeep) sues United Auto Workers union to stop strike over worker salaries.
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Boeing fires 17,000 workers as concerns about company's passenger jets like the 737Max grow and company posts record losses. Meanwhile union workers are still on strike after a month over wages.
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CEOs of 100 largest low-wage employers in the U.S. spent more on stock buybacks than capital investments and employee retirement plan contributions
https://www.commondreams.org/news/corporation-stock-buybacks
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Union wins UK lawsuit against Tesco's strategy to 'fire and rehire' staff. "This would have been viewed, objectively, as unrealistic and as flouting industrial common sense by both sides."
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@ewen The Editor asked why they have a "gaping hole" in their production process, and then answered their own question: "we don't pay for photos".
Another thing: Silversea Cruises is owned by Royal Caribbean Group, which has an annual revenue of US$13.9 Billion, so I think they can afford to pay a photographer.
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Les activistes de Clean Clothes Campaign sont solidaires des travailleurs, en perturbant le flux publicitaire de Nike avec les demandes et les messages des travailleurs.
Plus de 125 000 personnes ont signé une pétition demandant à Nike de payer 💰ℹ️ Pour en savoir plus 👇
https://ethique-sur-etiquette.org/NIKE-il-est-temps-de-payer-les-ouvrier-es
✍️ Pour signez la pétition de Clean Clothes Campaign 👇
https://actions.eko.org/a/nike-just-pay-it/
Et pour Nike 👉 #PayYourWorkers #NOW -
👟 "Clean Clothes Campaign" parvient à nous faire passer un message sur "Nike" au cœur de ces #jeuxolympiques #Paris2024 👇
Heyx "Nike" 👉 #PayYourWorkers #NOW
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World Bank finds China State Construction Engineering Corporation guilty of water pollution & violation of labour laws in construction of $$230 million highway linking the municipalities of San José de Chiquitos & San Ignacio de Velasco.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk could leave if $56 billion pay package not approved, shareholders warned
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/24173064/tesla-board-chair-warn-elon-musk-leave-pay-shareholdersThis would be a win-win. The company would be rid of an egotistical techbro who has a history of making terrible decisions as CEO, and it would have more money to pay its workers.
To put this in perspective: Tesla has an estimated workforce of 140,000 people. Saving the company $56 Billion — debt, wasted earnings, unpaid wages, or however you want to see it — is equivalent to $400,000 per worker.
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Owners of McDonald’s Franchises in New York have spent almost $500,000 lobbying to kill a proposed law to help workers recover back wages that have not been paid. “All they have to do is pay their workers and they won’t have any problem.”
https://nysfocus.com/2024/05/09/mcdonalds-lobbying-empire-act-wage-theft
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Tipping practice is proportional to wage theft. #PayYourWorkers
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Uber warns of 85 per cent price rise under Labor's gig economy laws
https://www.9news.com.au/national/uber-warns-of-85pc-price-rise-under-labors-gig-economy-laws/a82056ee-3041-40ef-b21c-8e44c629c7d5This article has a strange spin. Seems it's trying to scare customers and imply Labor is to blame for threatened price-hikes, but all I'm seeing is an admission from Uber that the company is ripping-off its gig-workers to the tune of FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.
Uber doesn't pay its workers minimum wage, casual award rates, or penalty rates for public, holidays, weekends and night, and it's a massive problem that they're stealing superannuation from workers.
Uber is running an unsustainable business model, and has lost money practically every financial quarter for all of its existence. Uber has been finding it more difficult to get more rounds of funding, so it will need to increase its prices or go broke before long. In the meantime, Uber needs to pay its workers.
#PayYourWorkers #Uber #UberEats #GigEconomy #GigWorkers #AusPol
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Australians’ tipping habits fail to keep up with rising restaurant prices, data reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/21/australians-tipping-habits-fail-to-keep-up-with-rising-restaurant-prices-data-revealsWe don't tip in Australia. Hardly at all — maybe round-off or add a bit extra for exceptional service. We know that in places like the USA, "tipping culture" is an ugly power-trip with its roots in racism and abuse of workers. We have regulations about minimum wages and worker rights. We expect restaurant owners to pay their workers.
There's a couple of other points worth noting about sources for the article:
- Restaurant terminal provider, Zeller, supplies point-of-sale equipment such as EFTPOS machines. Their website says: "Zeller Tipping Trends Report 2023 shows Australians are tipping more generously amidst economic challenges". Their data shows that tipping has grown 12% year-on-year. https://www.myzeller.com/about/press/zeller-tipping-trends-report-2023
- The Australian Foodservice Advocacy Body is not there to support the typical restaurant and hospitality worker. The board and advisors are nearly all middle-aged white men, and the organisation was founded by a bunch of mega-corporations that you'd recognise as big brands in supermarkets.I think it's safe to say the Australian Foodservice Advocacy Body is being misleading, and trying to hype tipping culture in Australia to increase income for big business.
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@AnneTheWriter1 Signs of the times, and welcome to see community support. It took a long time for Burgerville (in #PacificNorthwest) to sign, but workers did finally win. #solidarity
#PayYourWorkers a #LivingWage. #Labor #Strikes #Unions #UnionStrong #LaborLaws #Unionize #UnionStrike #Union #Illinois
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Labor to give casuals new rights to full-time employment in move to improve job security
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/24/labor-to-give-casuals-new-rights-to-full-time-employment-in-move-to-improve-job-securityIt's about time the government stopped companies from mistreating casual workers. Casual workers deserve the same rights as permanent workers if they work the same hours and have been in the role for a while.
Gotta love how the Business Council of Australia hates workers so much that they oppose "same job same pay" and have already started an ad campaign against the proposed improvements.
