
Crown Melbourne Casino Workers Protest Wages weekend

Crown Melbourne casino workers are demanding higher pay plus a bonus that is additional instantly weekend shifts.
Crown Melbourne casino workers held a general public demonstration friday evening outside the Melbourne Convention Centre in protest of overnight weekend wages paying similar rate as weekday night shifts.
The United Voice Casino Union was negotiating with the casino for higher pay for employees whom work 7 pm to 7 am on Friday and Saturday. The union is seeking a $3 AUD ($2.31 USD) per hour surcharge for the graveyard shifts.
In addition, the union is also after a five per cent raise for several employees at all hours. Crown offered a 2.75 percent increase but the proposal was refused.
Crown Melbourne compromises two city obstructs and it is the largest casino complex in the Southern Hemisphere. With roughly 5,500 employees, the resort is Victoria’s largest solitary employer.
United Voice said of its protest, ‘We have told the casino that we have been serious. Now it’s time to show them. Without us. while they think our company is already paid enough, we know they do not make record profits’
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For now, the union is going for a more approach that is civilized to walking off the work in hit. Some 200 protestors turned out along the promenade on Friday evening.
The group circled the casino chanting for higher wages and signs that are holding their demands.
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