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MEDIA RELEASE | PREMIER SHOPS SHUT THEIR DOORS – A DISASTER FOR RETAIL WORKERS AND THE RETAIL SECTOR

Statement from SDA National Secretary Gerard Dwyer

MEDIA RELEASE | ACT NOW – SAVE Lives, SAVE Jobs, SAVE the Economy

Business, big and small, unions, employers and industry are speaking with one voice.

MEDIA RELEASE | ADDITIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES – STATEMENT FROM SDA NATIONAL SECRETARY GERARD DWYER

In line with the Prime Minister’s call for Australians to pay more respect to “social distancing” for the duration of the COVID-19 emergency, the union representing retail workers is calling for additional steps to improve the safety of shoppers and employees.

MEDIA RELEASE | NOT GOOD ENOUGH – RETAIL WORKERS AND SHOPS GOING TO WALL AS THEY WAIT TO GET GOVERNMENT SUPPORT IN THEIR HANDS

As discretionary retail spending falls off a cliff, the government must step in now to provide immediate financial support to enable as many workers and businesses as possible to weather the storm and give those stood down the means to feed their families.

MEDIA RELEASE | ARA and SDA call on PM to deliver an Australian Retail Industry Rescue Package

The Executive Director of the Australian Retailers Association, Russell Zimmerman, and the National Secretary of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association, Gerard Dwyer, today called on the federal government to deliver an Australian Retail Industry Rescue Package

MEDIA RELEASE | Respect Our Retail Workers

It is important that everyone remains calm and appreciates the essential service retail workers are providing the community during this difficult period.

MEDIA RELEASE | Remember to keep cool and show respect for local retail workers: SDA Union

The union representing retail workers, including supermarket workers, has called on the local community to remember to keep their cool and respect workers when hitting the shops over the coming days and weeks.

MEDIA RELEASE | Congratulations to Woolworths – Statement from Gerard Dwyer, National Secretary SDA

The SDA congratulates Woolworths for its decision to pay casual staff required to self-isolate as a consequence of COVID-19.

MEDIA RELEASE | BCF – NOT FUN: STATEMENT FROM GERARD DWYER, NATIONAL SECRETARY SDA

Now, it is the turn of the Super Retail Group (BCF, Rebel, Supercheap Auto and Macpac) to acknowledge wage underpayments to the tune of a further $8 million, adding to the $52 million uncovered last year.

MEDIA RELEASE | Target underpayments – statement from Gerard Dwyer, National Secretary SDA

Underpayment of wages is now a full blown epidemic.

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