The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) has been supporting them in this quest since late last year.
The workers arranged to meet the bookshop owners to discuss the EBA in March. The owners initially agreed, but then their lawyers contacted RAFFWU saying they had done so only under duress. The owners then launched a legal action.
A post on RAFFWU’s social media, featuring a photo of workers holding the union’s flag, was shared by three of the bookshop’s workers.
Better Read Than Dead management sent “cease and desist” letters to RAFFWU, and to workers who shared the post, demanding it be taken down immediately.
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This initiative has drawn support from Paul McAleer from the International Transport Workers Federation and former NSW Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon.
“The festival embraces the diversity of radical struggle and creates a platform that amplifies the voice of activism,” Hickson said.
“Building on the strong history of working class and progressive film making, it will be a unique festival for filmmakers from all walks of life at any level of film and documentary-making experience. Amateur, middling, or professional – if you document radical struggle and make issue-based short films, then this new film festival is for you.”
Entries for the inaugural 2021 DTSFF will open in September. The inaugural 2021 DSTFF film festival screening will take place in November.
When studying the factors that led to the failure of US workers at Amazon to unionise, writes Malik Miah, we should learn from one of the greatest organising periods in the United States: the 1930s.