THANK YOU !! to all the friends who helped with the VOTE NO to Woolworths EBA leafleting in Parhran, St Kilda and Balaclava on Saturday.
Our friends like doing the leafleting. SDA members like the leaflet.
Voting on the Woolworths EBA starts on Monday 20 August
Voting will be in store ballot boxes. Voting closes on Friday 7 September.Our next job is to get our leaflets out to SDA members in all Woolworths supermarkets before 7 September.
Find your local Woolworths supermaket here.
VOTE NO TO WOOLWORTHS EBA !!
Hey the DRAFT Woolworths National Supermarket Agreement seems to be around. Ask the union organiser to get one for you. RRRSDA were right it seems to be only a 3% pay rise. Lets see what else is being given away.
ReplyDeleteI hear they can reduce part time hours? is this correct?!
ReplyDeleteThey've always had that clause at least since I joined Woolworths back in 2006, the reducing part time hours. There's quite a long and convoluted process that has to be gone through before that can happen though. I had a manager a few years ago that tried to cut my hours in that manner, I pointed out that they needed to follow the entire process before they could do so and she soon gave up. Thankfully she left soon after.
ReplyDeleteSeeing this website has really made me question being a member of the SDA. For 6 1/2 years I've been with them. If the new 2012 agreement doesn't really deliver much then I think I'll leave the union. When I started our agreement gave us 4% annual pay rises. In 2009 it was 3.5%, and now in 2012 just a paltry 3%? What are we getting in return for such a low rise? Woolworths is reporting record profits, after all.
An extra $68 over 3 years for full time based on 38 hours, 15 minute breaks instead of the cuurent 10 mins, one extra day compassionate leave currenty 4 days, sick leave recorded on pay slips, around 30 cents an hour increase per six months for 3 years
ReplyDeleteWe Already Get 15 minute tea breaks. it is in the EBA as 10 minutes with 2.5 minutes each way travel time. All the new EBA does is clarify what we ALREADY HAVE! NO new benefit
DeleteWe had a meeting regarding this EBA yesterday. Plenty of union propaganda re: The Liberal Party etc. The pay rise is 9.3% over three years. Everything, other than the mediocre pay increase, they talked about sounded positive. I'd like to see the full EBA though, to see what is being given away.
ReplyDeleteNo point in leaving the union if you are not happy with the outcome. You would be better of remaining a member and becoming more involved. You cannot influence the unions direction if not a member.
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