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$15 and hour - not 15% GST
Thu 30 Sep 10
JB Hi-Fi workers are combining a protest over low wages with opposition to the GST rise this Friday.
Unite Campaigns Organiser Joe Carolan said that while "Taxes that hit low paid workers hardest are going up, for the last three years JB Hi-Fi workers have had no pay increases whatsoever. We need a Living Wage, not new taxes on the working poor. Thats why we say $15ph, not 15% GST.
“Our Delegates representing several JB stores throughout Auckland will be striking from 1pm tomorrow Friday, and picketing JB Hi-Fi HQ opposite St Lukes Mall at 2pm.
“We say abolish GST, and replace it with a ‘Robin Hood tax’ on big financial transactions like the ones JB Hi-Fi's management make every day.
GRAND THEFT AUCKLAND - Protest at JB hifi this weekend.
Fri 2 Jul 10
Labour history made today as New Zealand has first Mall Strike
Wed 26 May 10
Labour history was made today as New Zealand has it's first Mall workers strike at midday. Workers in JB Hi-Fi in Albany, organised with the Unite Union, were on strike for better pay and against a culture of bullying and intimidation against union members.
"Our manager told me that I would never get a pay rise if I stayed with the Collective. There was a lot of pressure put on me to resign. Now they've cut down on the areas I used to sell on in our store. It's unfair- I'm rejoining the union and striking to stand up for my rights" said union member Jack Lucas.
Wanted! For Corporate Greed: JB Hi-Fi
Tue 18 May 10
They made $150 million in profit last year - a 29% increase.
The gave their CEO, Richard Uechtritz, $4 million dollars.
But when staff asked for their first pay rise in 3 years the response was... NO, nothing, nada, zero.
JB Hi-Fi workers are taking regular strike and picket action to try and get a fair deal.
JB Hi Fi Newsletters
Thu 6 May 10
JB Hi Fi Newsletters (PDF downloads)
Auckland and Wellington May Day actions to support JB Hi-Fi workers
Tue 4 May 10
Around one hundred people marched in Wellington to mark International Workers'Day and in solidarity with striking JB Hi-Fi worker.
Representatives from the Nurses, Tramways and Maritime unions as well as rank and file members from unions such as the PSA and SFWU marched together up and down Lambton Quay. Peter Hicks, an Australian union singer played two songs, "Solidarity Forever" and "Hold that Line".
CTU President Helen Kelly spoke of the need for retail workers to organise to win collective agreements and told the assembled workers that the CTU unions were behind JB workers 100%.
It was a good day in Wellington with people heading off in high spirits.
Global Mayday Protest begins at Queen Street’s JB HiFi
Fri 30 Apr 10
CEO gets $3million, workers get nothing.
Unite, the union that represents over a hundred workers in JB HiFi, will be holding a protest outside the Australian owned company’s flagship stores in Queen Street, Auckland, tomorrow at 1pm and wellington at 12 noon. The pickets are part of a Global of Action to mark International Workers Day, or Mayday, where workers and the trade union movement take to the streets.
First ever JB Hi-Fi retail workers strike
Fri 16 Apr 10
JB Hi-Fi staff at the company's Wellington store will take strike action today from 1pm as part of a Unite Union campaign to win higher wages for retail workers. The strike will be the first ever industrial action at one of the company's stores in Australia or New Zealand in over 27 years of the company's history.
The Unite Union has been negotiating with JB Hi-Fi management for over six months for a collective agreement but the Australian bosses are refusing to raise wages for staff this year.
Mallworker News September 2009
Thu 24 Sep 09
500 Mall Workers Organise
After beginning the campaign for free car-parking and better wages for mall workers at Syliva Park in July, union organisers have quickly fanned out across Auckland visiting Manukau Mall, St. Lukes, West-City and Lynfield malls as the Unite Mall Workers campaign spread across Auckland.
Over 500 mall workers have so far joined up to Unite Mall Workers and they join thousands of union members in malls who are fed up with low wages and high parking fees from their Australian chain owners and mall giants like Sylvia Park and Westfield.
