EXCLUSIVE: McDonald's blocks payroll deductions for largest retail union as it tries to cut pay/conditions for the country’s youngest and lowest paid workers. (My investigation into why @SDAunion & @unionsaustralia
sell out workers to help corps) #auspol http://voiceofaction.org/mcdonalds-cut-off-cash-to-shoppies-union-ahead-of-fair-work-hearings/

Australia's biggest employers including McDonald’s, Coles & Woolworths have been forced to replace their enterprise agreements - made with unions' blessing - which left hundreds of thousands of workers each being paid hundreds of dollars a week less than under the Award #auspol

Why does @unionsaustralia sell out workers? Investigation reveals @SDAunion derives its political/financial power from 200k+ member base which can only be maintained if major employers help drive new member recruitment and allow for payroll deductions for union membership fees.

@SDAunion is the largest affiliated org to @AustralianLabor, has immense political power over the ALP and ACTU @sallymcmanus. Uses it to push a socially conservative agenda. It has been accused by @raffwu of repeatedly selling out workers' interests due to dependance on bosses

@raffwu: “The grand bargain [between SDA and the major employers] was literally a massive financial windfall derived from the unpaid low wages of workers, and industrial compliance … and in return the SDA had these employers recruit for it and process all of the membership fees"

@AdamBandt wants legal changes to protect workers from SDA-style wage deals. He says young people will be hit hardest by COVID-19 recession. "We need a recovery plan that is especially focused on making sure we don’t have a lost generation coming out of this crisis.” #auspol

Construction union @CFMEU_CG has come out in support of @raffwu on its Facebook page, condemning @SDAunion and @unionsaustralia as “stooges” and “un-Australian” for trying “to reduce penalty rates for already low-paid, hard-working and vulnerable workers”.

@vic_socialists also posted in solidarity with the fast food workers and condemning the union leadership