"Before unions agitated for meal breaks and rest breaks to be introduced, workers were required to work the whole day without a break. In 1973, workers at Ford in Melbourne engaged in industrial action over many issues, one of their demands being a proper break from the production line."

juliar wrote on Jan 18^th, 2018 at 9:30pm:


"Enterprise Bargaining was introduced in 1996 which allowed workers and their unions to negotiate directly with their employer over pay and conditions. Evidence from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that collective bargaining delivers better wages than individual agreements for ordinary workers."

How the malignant corrupt unions forced industry in Australia to close down.

Annual Leave
Paid Annual Leave was first won after a campaign by printing workers in 1936. The Arbitration Commission granted the workers paid leave, which was then gained by other workers through their unions in different industries. Annual leave loading of 17.5 per cent was first won by workers in the Metal Industry in 1973.

Awards
Awards are legally binding documents that set out the minimum entitlements for workers in every industry. The first industrial award, the Pastoral Workers Award was established by the Australian Workers Union in 1908, mainly covering shearers. The shearers had experienced a terrible deterioration of their wages and conditions during the 1897 Depression and decided to take action to protect working people. Since 1904, awards have underpinned the pay and terms and conditions of employment for millions of workers. Awards are unique to Australia and integral in ensuring workers get 'fair pay for a fair day's work'.

Penalty Rates
Penalty rates were established in 1947, when unions argued in the Arbitration Commission that people needed extra money for working outside normal hours.

Maternity leave
Australian unions’ intensive campaigning for paid parental leave ended in victory with the introduction of the Paid Parental leave scheme by the Gillard Labor government. Under the scheme, working parents of children born or adopted after 1 January 2011 are entitled to a maximum of 18 weeks’ pay on the National Minimum Wage.

Superannuation
Prior to 1986, only a select group of workers were entitled to Superannuation. It became a universal entitlement after the ACTU's National Wage Case. Employers had to pay 3% of workers' earnings into Superannuation. This later increased to 9% and on November 2, 2011 the ACTU and its unions’ “Stand Up for Super” campaign celebrated another win for working Australians, when the Labor Government moved to increase the compulsory Superannuation Guarantee to 12% over 6 years from 1 July 2013 to 1 July 2019.

Equal Pay for Women
Although there were attempts to introduce equal pay going back as far as 1949, the principle of equal pay for women was finally adopted by Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in 1969.

Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation
Workers compensation laws first came into existence in West Australia in 1902. For many years unions agitated and campaigned for health and safety laws which compelled employers to provide a safe working environment. In Victoria, legislation was introduced in 1985 which saw the active role of workers in maintaining safety on the job. Building unions agitated for many years to ban the use of asbestos, finally succeeding in the 1980’s.

Sick leave
Before sick leave, you turned up to work if you were sick, or you went without pay. Sick leave provisions began to appear in awards in the 1920’s and unions have campaigned hard for better sick leave conditions over the years, across all industries.

Long service leave
Coal workers went on strike in 1949 over a 35 hour week and Long service leave. Long service leave was finally introduced in New South Wales in 1951. Unions in other states followed.

Redundancy pay
The Arbitration Commission introduced the first Termination, Change and Redundancy Clause into awards due to work by metalworkers and their union. This entitled workers to redundancy pay.

Allowances: shift allowance, uniform allowance
Unions in different industries have campaigned for allowances that pertain to their members. Many workers who are required to wear uniforms in their jobs, get an allowance for this rather than having to pay for uniforms themselves.

Shift allowances are money that's paid for working at night or in the afternoon. Different industries have different allowances that were won by workers and their unions over the years.

Meal Breaks, rest breaks
Before unions agitated for meal breaks and rest breaks to be introduced, workers were required to work the whole day without a break. In 1973, workers at Ford in Melbourne engaged in industrial action over many issues, one of their demands being a proper break from the production line.

Collective Bargaining
Enterprise Bargaining was introduced in 1996 which allowed workers and their unions to negotiate directly with their employer over pay and conditions. Evidence from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that collective bargaining delivers better wages than individual agreements for ordinary workers.

Unfair Dismissal Protection
Unfair Dismissal Protection came from the concept of a "fair go all round", after the Australian Workers Union took a case to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on behalf of a worker who had been unfairly sacked in 1971. Since then, unions have campaigned for laws that reflect that 'fair go' principle.

And the union puppet Bull S. was up to his neck in this sort of thing with MacDonalds etc.



How a union ripped off the workers
Duncan Hart SEPTEMBER 17 2016

The unprecedented wage theft at Australia's largest employers, including Coles, Woolworths, Hungry Jack's, KFC and McDonald's, and the "trade union" that helped to facilitate them, should be nothing less than a national scandal.

Every roster examined at these large employers shows a majority of workers being less paid less than they are entitled to under the federal workplace award.

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Taken for a ride. Photo: Robert Rough

The scale of this wage theft means roughly 250,000 workers (at least!) are receiving less than the supposed legal minimum – the award "safety net" upon which enterprise agreements are supposed to rest. In monetary terms we are talking hundreds of millions of dollars every year finding its way into the pockets of corporate giants, rather than low-wage workers.

Yet the problem is not new, and not confined to the latest round of enterprise agreements negotiated by the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association (SDA), the retail and fast food union. We're talking about 20-plus years, and billions of dollars lost to workers, thanks to the collaboration of the SDA and employers, since enterprise bargaining replaced centralised wage fixing in the early '90s.

The SDA, and the employers, went into negotiations for enterprise agreements with eyes wide open about their purpose – they wanted to undermine penalty rates for weekends and night work in exchange for a higher base rate of pay.

The stark reality of the situation for retail and fast food workers is that our award entitlements today have not increased since the achievement of equal pay in 1974, 42 years ago. And the SDA's strategy of undermining award conditions for increases to the base rate of pay have left the majority of us earning less than our legal entitlements even as those entitlements have stagnated.

The last 20 and more years have been years of betrayal for retail workers in this country.

Unless other unions do what they can to push back, the festering sore of the SDA and its shameful deals for retail and fast food workers will continue to blight the entire union movement. For many young workers, the SDA is the first experience any of them have of unionism. Please do not let it be their last.

Duncan Hart is a member of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association. He recently won an appeal against the approval of the Coles Enterprise Agreement in the Fair Work Commission on the basis that the agreement left many workers, including himself, earning less than they would under the general retail award.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-a-union-ripped-off-the-workers-20160915-grgr5m...

The SDA is just following the play book, Bill Shorten brokered similar "deals" when he was the head of the union and look what that turned out to be for the employee's.

Hopefully every parent with a child working at McDonalds encourages their kids to ring their union and resign their membership, immediately, at least the kids will be saving some money. 

And if the union's put the bounce on the kids like they normally do, take them on as well.

The days of union's being about standing up for their member's are nought but a distant memory in history, they are purely about garnering political power for their master's, the union movement and the ALP are like symbiotic viruses, they both need each other to survive.  The ALP need the huge war chest the union's provide by their own member's funds and the union's desperately need an ALP government so they can continue to spruik their stock in trade.

When you think about it, what the SDA has done is basically ALP ideology, "the end justifies the means".



Unhappy deals as union short-changes its McDonald’s junior workers in deals
SHARRI MARKSON, NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR, The Daily Telegraph September 13, 2017 6:42am


It’s not all golden arches for young Maccas employees, with the Shoppies union striking a pay deal in which young workers earn $5 an hour less than their peers.



THE Shoppies union has struck obscene pay deals with fast food giant McDonald’s in which young workers earn $5 an hour less than their peers on the award rate.

Federal Government analysis of how McDonald’s pays its young workers has revealed 16, 17 and 18-year-olds on the enterprise agreement negotiated by the Shop Distributive and Allied ­Employees union are paid $5 an hour less on weekends than peers on the award rate — equivalent to $36 less a week or $1728 a year.

Worse, the union then deducts between $7.90 and $19.60 a fortnight in membership fees from the young workers’ salary, depending on the number of hours worked.

                  
Young McDonald’s workers are missing out under the new deal.   This is the sort of deal the Hamburglar would pull ...

Internal data from the SDA reveals 13 per cent of its membership are under 18 years old.

This means the union would collect somewhere between $5.7 million and up to $14 million a year from teenage members, depending on the hours they were working each week.

Maccas workers have told The Daily Telegraph of the “pressure” they feel to sign up to the union agreement, with a union representative present on their induction day.



“When all the new kids start, you have orientation days, and the SDA people come in and say how it is good for you to join the union, and everyone is in high school and quite young and you feel a pressure to join it,” said a worker at Stanmore McDonald’s.


Young Maccas workers are claiming they’re being pressured into joining the union.

“They said there would be benefits, but I haven’t used any of the benefits. It is just discounts like going to zoo.”

VIDEO: McDonald' s McAloo Tikki

McDonald’s Australia’s national enterprise agreement with the SDA has a clause that makes sure the union will be there on the very day that a young worker starts at the chain.

“The employer will invite the SDA to attend the induction of new employees,” it states.

Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said the SDA’s hypocrisy was breathtaking. “These SDA deals demonstrate the obscene hypocrisy of the union movement when they pretend to be concerned about weekend penalty rates,” she said. “This also raises serious questions about workers under 18 being pressured into joining unions.”

McDonald’s corporate relations said its enterprise agreement, approved by the Fair Work Commission and voted on by employees, “delivers a substantially higher rate of pay across the week over penalty rates that only apply to limited times.” But the weekday rates are not much higher. Workers aged 16 earn $10.54 hourly on weekdays, compared to the award equivalent of $9.72 while 18-year-olds get $14.76, compared to hourly award rate of $13.61.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/unhappy-deals-as-union-shortchanges-i...

Unions are just evil.