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BRIEF
Victory for Coles-Myer workers


Melbourne
21 April 2007


Less than two weeks after resigning to protest against substandard wages and conditions, construction workers at the Coles-Myer distribution centre in Somerton have secured a collective agreement with construction industry-standard wages and conditions. Coles re-opened negotiations with the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union soon after community activists organised by Union Solidarity blockaded the centre’s gates on April 13. The workers had been employed as casuals on individual contracts with wages approximately $10 per hour below industry standards.

25 April 2007
Tony Iltis
Union Solidarity picket at Coles Somerton


From: Australian News, Green Left Weekly issue #707 25 April 2007.
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