Do I go over her head, even though she begged me not to?
A delegate finds a casual on a temporary visa is missing every penalty rate she is owed — and she is begging him not to raise it. What would you do?
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Anyone but Argentina
For a month, people who agree on almost nothing found themselves agreeing on one thing — from Lagos to Liverpool to Lima, all quietly hoping for the same result.
Every Job Has a Barry
He reckons the union does nothing. He also takes every pay rise, every allowance and every RDO the union won. Here is how to talk to him without turning it into a blue, and why writing him off costs you more than it costs him.
Building Power Between Agreements
“The union didn’t fight hard enough.” Every delegate has heard it, and the pronoun is the whole problem. A step-by-step look at the quiet years between agreements, from the debrief after the vote through to a claims survey worth the paper it is printed on.