Consumer boycott

A meeting of unionists has placed a consumer boycott on Dunes Restaurant, Wollongong.

When ACTU Secretary Greg Combet addressed several hundred union delegates at a Your Rights at Work meeting in Wollongong on October 27 he referred to the plight of the workers at Dunes.

A South Coast Labor Council fact sheet circulated to media alleged nine apprentices and fully trained chefs had been sacked or forced to resign within two weeks.

The apprentices were allegedly being paid between $8.50 and $12.36 an hour and were forced to sign an AWA as a condition of employment that eliminated all paid allowances including annual leave, sick leave, uniform allowances, tool allowances and split shift allowances.

All were allegedly required to work any days of the week often well beyond 38 hours with no overtime. (One apprentice at the meeting stated she worked up to 60 hours per week on the ordinary rate).

The South Coast Labor Council alleges restaurant management become abusive toward several of the young employees when they discovered they had joined a union and began pressuring them to resign.

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