The five month campaign by ASF Melbourne North to recover stolen wages for one its members has been successful with the employer agreeing to the demands made. The total amount recovered was around $11k and was made possible by the solidarity of workers who supported the campaign including members of
After almost ten years fighting for justice, Ansell workers in Sri Lanka who were sacked for attempting to organise their workplace, have won the compensation they were seeking as justice. Here is yet another example of the power of international solidarity. In October 2013, 11 members of the IndustriALL affiliated
On 15 August, ASF Melbourne North conducted a protest action at D.G. Expresso demanding the return of wages and tips stolen from 'Mo'. Mo worked hard at their job and was very popular with customers. When Mo asked her employer about the tips jar, Mo was told
One must understand the environment we were dealing with, to begin with the majority of the work force were immigrants with little or no command of the English language who in turn were the lowest paid, working under the worst conditions you could ever imagine. Quite a number of the
The Melbourne North affiliate of ASF has celebrated and commemorated May Day on 1 May every year since 1986. The ASF celebrates all those achievements of the international working-class by their own efforts and commemorates all those workers not only fighting to improve their conditions of work who seek to