FFTS wins give members 12% WAGE BOOST

Having a strong union like the FFTS on your side makes a big difference to you and your family’s weekly budget. By looking back on the last three years at the FFTS we can see that we have won wage gains of over 12% for members.

With rising food, rent, mortgage and petrol prices every cent of that rise helps you stay ahead. Being in the union also means you have someone to back you up no matter what happens. Every year we also recover tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages and entitlements. Unfortunately some businessmen are ‘sharks in suits’ and once a long-standing employee is injured or ‘out the door’ they try to walk away from the money they owe workers. They know that you can’t afford to pay $10,000 or $20,000 on lawyers and think that unpaid workers will just go away. But when these sharks do that to a FFTS member they meet the full force of the law and our union lawyers go in hard for every dollar you are owed. That’s the legal power and the protection you get as a member of the FFTS union. We take up the fight for every member.

With unfair work laws still in place it is clear who are losing out in the labor market – temporary migrant workers, young workers and workers with no union are falling further and further behind. This year a national university study showed that the majority of workers on AWAs in small and medium sized business (direct contracts with the boss) were 26% worse off than union members on union collective agreements. These nonunion workers have become second-class citizens ‘Australia’s working poor’ – they have jobs but cannot afford housing or the basics. They are forced to work for as little as $8 an hour. The only solid life raft for workers in this hostile industrial climate of ‘WORKCHOICES LIGHT’ is a strong union and decent union negotiated EBA.

HELP YOUR FAMILY AND WORKMATES JOIN THE FFTS

Don’t let your friends or family get caught in the non-union poverty tell them about the union. If you know anyone not in the union then get them to call the union and get some protection. If you don’t have an EBA at your workplace then call the union protect your future income.