VICTORY IN THE CAMPAIGN FOR A LIVING WAGE PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 20:02
John Key said last year there would be no rise in the minimum wage. This year we won a 25c an hour rise. That is a
$52 MILLION PAYOUT
for 100,000 workers on the minimum wage
We had to ask for $15 an hour to get the rise to $12.75. If we hadn’t, chances are it would have been cut. Unite is a small fast food workers union. We were able to get more than half the 300,000 signatures needed for the referendum.
That’s means each signature netted roughly $289 and each activist won a staggering $350,000!
Just imagine what we could achieve If the Council of Trade Unions had backed the campaign. Organise at work in your union and ask for more. Unite shows how
If you don’t fight, you lose
Thousands of Dunedin people supported the campaign. Come and celebrate at the May Day rally in the Octagon at 2pm.
MAY 1 IS INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY
 

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