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Dear Comrade: Are private businesses exempt from wage laws?

May 17, 2021

A young mechanic asks the Young Workers Centre about penalty rates entitlements, and his boss' claim that private business is exempt. Spoiler, wage theft ahead.

Wage Theft | YWC | Dear Comrade

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“I did not make any mistake”: ATO seeks to reclaim Uber drivers’ Jobkeeper payments

May 17, 2021

We’re hearing from workers on temporary visas who had their JobKeeper...

Racial Justice | Gig | Auspol

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Ramsiyar & Thanush survived years of refugee detention. Now they are out, what's next?

May 07, 2021

“In 2009, in Sri Lanka, there was the big war,” says...

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Knowledge is Power In Fight Against Gendered Violence

May 07, 2021

Do you know what to do if you or someone you...

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Working People Getting a Seat at the Table

May 07, 2021

Applications are now open for Candidate School. Working people are so...

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A Love Letter to ‘Last Exit to Springfield’

May 07, 2021

Sitcoms, especially American ones, provide both good and bad representations of unions. As a child of the 90s, my earliest memory of unionism wasn’t of going to a rally with my family or...

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