Tenants Union workers will strike on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 August, to make their employer fully pass on the pay increases won from the government in the ASU’s Equal Pay campaign.

Show your SOLIDARITY in TWO WAYS:

1) Come to the workers’ picket on Tuesday 14 August at 55 Johston St, Fitzroy 9:00am – 5:00pm; or

2) Call the Tenants Union hotline 9416 2577 and make management miss its government-set service target by logging lots of missed calls.

Click here to download this flyer.

HERE ARE SIX THINGS YOU CAN DO:

1) Visit the picket on the corner of Union Rd and Somerton Rds, Somerton.

2) Sign the Coles worker solidarity petition .

3) Donate to the striking workers, to make up for the pay they’re losing while on strike.

Account Name: NUW Vic Coles Somerton Relief Fund

BSB Number: 063 074
Account Number: 10014540
Branch: Commonwealth Bank

(Please specify that donations are for Toll workers)

4) Download this flyer, and distribute it in Coles stores near you.

5) Keep up to date with the campaign via the NUW’s Toll EBA Facebook page.

6) Follow the twitter conversation at #strikecoles.

Support Toll workers’ strike against substandard wages and conditions

Join the community assembly

From 6am on Tuesday 10 July, there will be a peaceful community assembly outside the Coles Somerton distribution centre.

Union Road (near corner of Somerton Road), Somerton. (Melways ref 180 C9)

The community assembly will run 24 hours a day until the workers achieve their demands. Please come and show your support.

Why the Toll workers deserve support

Coles raked in $1.8 billion in profit last year, and pay their chief executive more than $15 million per year. Toll Logistics, who employ the workers at the huge Coles warehouse in Somerton, made a profit of nearly $300 million last year.

Coles outsource this warehouse to Toll, who pay the workers at Somerton up to 20% less pay than other Coles warehouse workers. They get no rostered day off, and no shift loading for most of their afternoon and night shifts. Rights for casual employees and for union reps are inferior to other Coles warehouses.

Workers at Coles Somerton are members of the National Union of Workers. They have decided that there is no reason for them to accept a cut-price deal. They are striking to demand the same pay and conditions as other Coles warehouse workers.

For more information

DOWNLOAD and distribute a flyer about the dispute http://www.workerssolidaritymelbourne.org/category/posters-and-flyers/

Visit the Coles Somerton workers’ facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/tolleba

There is  also an article on the Socialist Alternative website

And there is background on the NUW website.

Donations

WSN is collecting donations for the 500 striking workers, by electronic transfer. Any contribution large or small would be greatly appreciated!

Account name: Carboni Workers Club          Bank: Fitzroy Credit Co-op

BSB: 803 226          Account Number: 10077

(NB. Please specify that your donation is for “Toll workers”).