RAFFWU secretary Josh Cullinan has promised more strikes and escalating bans unless Apple agrees to聽workers鈥 calls for a fair enterprise agreement. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Apple workers struck for 24 hours, taking聽the next step in their unprecedented national industrial action campaign for a better agreement. Isaac Nellist 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Apple workers took action as聽part of nationwide industrial action by the Retail and Fast Food Workers聽Union. Tyrus Maxwell and Theodore Catt 谤别辫辞谤迟.听
The Victorian Labor government wants to hand over part of Federation Square to the corporate giant Apple. The community resistance is building.
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