Migrant workers push for first farm strike in decades
Migrant farm workers are taking on one of Australia's richest families, the Smorgons, in what could be the first major strike in the farm sector for many decades.
Ben Schneiders is an investigative reporter at The Age.
Migrant farm workers are taking on one of Australia's richest families, the Smorgons, in what could be the first major strike in the farm sector for many decades.
One of Labor's biggest backers, the giant shop assistants union, will be subject to a parliamentary inquiry over wage deals that have cost workers hundreds of millions of dollars
The firm linked to a $165 million tax fraud syndicate was also central to a $100 million land-banking scandal.
Coles and the conservative shop assistants' union are teaming up to avoid a repeat of last year's embarrassing legal ruling that found many supermarket workers were being underpaid.
The conservative union that undercut the pay and conditions of more than 250,000 workers in a series of substandard wage deals is seeking to "come in from the cold" by rejoining Victoria's peak union body.
One of Australia’s largest vegetable growers has been hit with a landmark legal claim aimed at recovering more than $500,000 in back pay for exploited international workers.
Hundreds of thousands of low-paid workers would get protection from being underpaid, under a push for reforms to plug loopholes that are being exploited by big companies such as McDonald's and KFC
The cosy, decades-long relationship between Australia's largest employers and the Labor party's biggest industrial backer, today faces an audacious challenge from a new retail union committed to boosting penalty rates
Australia's third largest employer, supermarket giant Coles, knew that more than half its workers were paid below legal minimum wages
Josh Cullinan, the man who helped expose the underpayment scandal at Coles, should have been a great potential hire for the "shoppies" union.
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