Taken from the on line edition of the ETU News (www.etu.asn.au)

A new union for fast food and retail workers has been launched in Melbourne. ETU members will recall the story in last December’s ETU News about ETU apprentice Clinton Jennings and his involvement with Unite, the casual workers rights group. ETU members might also have noticed a story in the Herald Sun (29-5-06), explaining that Unite has just re-launched itself as a new “fighting union for fast food and retail workers”.

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Taken from the website of The Age newspaper in Melbourne, theage.com.au

A new unregistered “union” targeting youth workers at fast food and retail companies such as McDonalds and Starbucks will circumvent the government’s industrial relations laws, organisers claim.
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Taken from the Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper. By Ellen Whinnett, state politics reporter. 29/5/2006
A rebel trade union will be launched in Melbourne today for young people working at fast food and retail chains.

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A new union for fast food and retail workers has been launched in Melbourne.
The union grew out of the UNITE campaign for casual workers rights. This is the most exciting development in the fight back for young workers rights in many, many years.

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