Any discussion on this site by the accrued wisdom of people who have lived full lives on the obvious scams going on Nope .

Union bashing seems to be your favourite topic but never do you comment on crooked industry.

Let's have a look at 7-eleven stores and the way they treat employees.

"While in Australia, students are only allowed to work 20 hours a week but many workers told the ABC they would be forced to work 40 hours and paid for only 20.

Many others did not receive penalty rates and were threatened with losing their visa if they complained.

Approx 70% of 7-eleven stores underpay workers" Today's ABC

Of course you would find this greed and corruption satisfactory and never mention it, just blame unions who stand up for these workers.

So many things we take for granted and are now enshrined in law were secured for working Australians by workers in their unions. Unions work to defend and improve these conditions for all working Australians:

Annual Leave

Paid Annual Leave was first won after a campaign by printing workers in 1936. The Arbitration Commission granted the workers paid leave, which was then gained by other workers through their unions in different industries. Annual leave loading of 17.5 per cent was first won by workers in the Metal Industry in 1973.

Awards

Awards are legally binding documents that set out the minimum entitlements for workers in every industry. The first industrial award, the Pastoral Workers Award was established by the Australian Workers Union in 1908, mainly covering shearers. The shearers had experienced a terrible deterioration of their wages and conditions during the 1897 Depression and decided to take action to protect working people. Since 1904, awards have underpinned the pay and terms and conditions of employment for millions of workers. Awards are unique to Australia and integral in ensuring workers get 'fair pay for a fair day's work'.

Penalty Rates

Penalty rates were established in 1947, when unions argued in the Arbitration Commission that people needed extra money for working outside normal hours.

Maternity leave

Australian unions’ intensive campaigning for paid parental leave ended in victory with the introduction of the Paid Parental leave scheme by the Gillard Labor government. Under the scheme, working parents of children born or adopted after 1 January 2011 are entitled to a maximum of 18 weeks’ pay on the National Minimum Wage.

Superannuation

Prior to 1986, only a select group of workers were entitled to Superannuation. It became a universal entitlement after the ACTU's National Wage Case. Employers had to pay 3% of workers' earnings into Superannuation. This later increased to 9% and on November 2, 2011 the ACTU and its unions’ “Stand Up for Super” campaign celebrated another win for working Australians, when the Labor Government moved to increase the compulsory Superannuation Guarantee to 12% over 6 years from 1 July 2013 to 1 July 2019.

Equal Pay for Women

Although there were attempts to introduce equal pay going back as far as 1949, the principle of equal pay for women was finally adopted by Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in 1969.

Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation

Workers compensation laws first came into existence in West Australia in 1902. For many years unions agitated and campaigned for health and safety laws which compelled employers to provide a safe working environment. In Victoria, legislation was introduced in 1985 which saw the active role of workers in maintaining safety on the job. Building unions agitated for many years to ban the use of asbestos, finally succeeding in the 1980’s.

Sick leave

Before sick leave, you turned up to work if you were sick, or you went without pay. Sick leave provisions began to appear in awards in the 1920’s and unions have campaigned hard for better sick leave conditions over the years, across all industries.

Long service leave

Coal workers went on strike in 1949 over a 35 hour week and Long service leave. Long service leave was finally introduced in New South Wales in 1951. Unions in other states followed.

Redundancy pay

The Arbitration Commission introduced the first Termination, Change and Redundancy Clause into awards due to work by metalworkers and their union. This entitled workers to redundancy pay.

Allowances: shift allowance, uniform allowance

Unions in different industries have campaigned for allowances that pertain to their members. Many workers who are required to wear uniforms in their jobs, get an allowance for this rather than having to pay for uniforms themselves. 

Shift allowances are money that's paid for working at night or in the afternoon. Different industries have different allowances that were won by workers and their unions over the years.

Meal Breaks, rest breaks

Before unions agitated for meal breaks and rest breaks to be introduced, workers were required to work the whole day without a break. In 1973, workers at Ford in Melbourne engaged in industrial action over many issues, one of their demands being a proper break from the production line.

Collective Bargaining

Enterprise Bargaining was introduced in 1996 which allowed workers and their unions to negotiate directly with their employer over pay and conditions. Evidence from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that collective bargaining delivers better wages than individual agreements for ordinary workers.

Unfair Dismissal Protection

Unfair Dismissal Protection came from the concept of a "fair go all round", after the Australian Workers Union took a case to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on behalf of a worker who had been unfairly sacked in 1971. Since then, unions have campaigned for laws that reflect that 'fair go' principle, which is about having a valid reason to sack someone and that the dismissal cannot be harsh, unjust or unreasonable.

Sure the old unions achieved a lot . But they have been taken over by non working class elite who deprive their members . 

The workers have deserted them to where they now represent only ten per cent of the workers in the private sector, 

even these numbers are inflated as we have seen in the Royal Commission with phantom  members being created . 

 why should women be paid to have kids ?,once you are pregant you should leave work and stay at home till the kid gets to at least 8 years old, and never pushed out to kindy  let them stay at home till they start school,the trouble women want houses like we old people have now they don't want to start with a cheaper house they want mansions now.

If all these woman stayed home most males would have a job, in years to come males will not have jobs

“You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts”. Patric Monyhan 

Pete

Thought this worth repeating as a comment on its own...... the biggest CRIMINAL so far, to the tune of 1.4million (plus), is LIBERAL'S Kathy Jackson with her greedy corrupt LIBERAL partner who has been given a political posting with Fair Works Australian on $400,000 but has taken 9 months PAID 'sick leave' to help defend his mate! 

How ironical but more so DISGUSTING.  NO ordinary worker would ever dream of screwing their employer to that degree.... you see you have to be SICK to get sick leave with PAY and then it is NOT for 9 frigging MONTHS.

Oh! to cap it all off, this JOKE royal commission didn't even bring Kathy Jackson before the Commission, a UNION had to do all that work and take her to court!