The first ever Casual Workers Conference has been called by Unite for Saturday 3rd April 2004. The Conference will be an opportunity for the voice of casual workers to be heard. 2.2 million (1 million casual for over one year) face a working life without sickies, holidays, job security, the ability to get a loan [...]

Australia has 2.2 million casual workers and its growing fast. One million of them have been casual for over a year. That’s a vast number of workers who, while making profits for their employer, never get a sickie, holidays, enjoy job security, and find it next to impossible to get a bank loan.

Greg Bradshaw answers criticisms of UNITE that were posted on the Melbourne IndyMedia web site. The original UNITE post on the Melbourne Indymedia site plus the replies can be read here. Read the official UNITE reply below

See the entire list of dodgy bosses on Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Melbourne

The UNITE campaign has had massive coverage in today’s Melbourne Age in relation to its campaign to clean up Brunswick St, Fitzroy. Check out the article, click here and also read the Age forum on casualisation created on their web page as a result of the article. It has many stories from casual [...]

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 and not 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 [...]

Unite is holding a day of action on Brunswick St, Fitzroy on Saturday 6th December from 12 noon, meeting outside Black Cat cafe, 252 Brunswick St, Fitzroy and then marching down the street. The Naming and Shaming is set to begin!

An exciting new campaign in Melbourne (based on a similar one in New Zealand) is beginning the task of fighting the exploitation of casual workers. Unite Co-ordinator Nicki Jonas reports…

Tim Bowron, CWI NZ, reports on Unite, the new union for casual/low paid workers in New Zealand and an inspiration for Unite in Australia. n New Zealand the trade union movement has suffered from major blows ater years of neo-liberalism and anti-union legislation.

On Saturday 20th September at 3pm at the Provincial Hotel (cnr Brunswick/Johnston Sts) the UNITE campaign is announcing which shops, bars, restaurants and coffee shops on Brunswick St have confirmed their decent treatment of their casual staff and are therefore getting the sticker of approval (see below) for their shop.