Workers Rights at Spotlight Are Immaterial - Protest Here

Workers at Spotlight will be given a miserly two cents an hour pay increase in exchange for losing entitlements like penalty rates, rest breaks and overtime.

Dear Friend.

Workers at Spotlight will be given a miserly two cents an hour pay increase in exchange for losing entitlements like penalty rates, rest breaks and overtime.

The Australian-owned chain of fabric and homewares stores employs 6000 workers and rakes in over $600 million a year. But new staff will lose up to $90 a week under the terms of Spotlight's new AWA individual contracts.

Support the Spotlight staff. Tell Spotlight's owners Morry Fraid and Ruben Fried how you feel about their company's actions.

With increasing petrol prices, rising costs and interest rates moving up the last thing Australian working families can afford is a $90 a week pay cut. Workers in the retail industry are not on high wages by any stretch of the imagination. Most of the Spotlight workers are struggling to keep their heads above water on $14.28 an hour. They can't afford to lose their extra pay for working nights and weekends.

Spotlight's management has argued that they were given the green light to rip off workers by the Howard Government. "Our AWA obviously meets all of the Work Choices requirements," they told AAP. "We are not the ones writing the laws," they told the Herald Sun. They're right. The new IR laws encourage businesses to cut their employees' take home pay and conditions. But is this how Australian businesses should treat their staff?

Make no mistake, the majority of Australians oppose these unfair laws. Companies have to understand that. Support the Spotlight staff and tell Spotlight's owners Morry Fraid and Ruben Fried how you feel about their company's actions.

Tell Spotlight: Just because the IR laws let you to rip off workers doesn't mean you have to. Your Rights at Work Spotlight Campaign

Pass it on

Print off a bulletin about Spotlight at the download link below and distribute it in your workplace and to your friends so they know what happens to people under the Federal Government's IR laws.

PS. JUNE 28 RALLIES AND WEEK OF ACTION: Say No to Unfair IR Laws! There are community events and actions all week June 25 - July 1. (See ASUnion Active News or Events page for dates and times Keep the pressure on and rally round the country on Wednesday June 28. Venue details here: Your Rights at Work Week of Action

Download File:
Downloadable Spotlight Bulletin - Print off and pass on! [ pdf ]