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United Voice, the hospitality union, has called on Woolworths today to ensure workers in their pubs and liquor stores are not at risk of losing wages and conditions following the company’s announcement they would be selling off their liquor operations.

United Voice WA Secretary Carolyn Smith said Woolworths have a responsibility to its workers.

United Voice WA, the hospitality union, is calling out an East Perth restaurant’s attempt to use public donations to pay workers.

East Perth’s Co-Op prematurely and suddenly closed last week and has since been asking for community support through a Go-Fund-Me page to help pay for staff and suppliers.

United Voice WA, the union for support workers and enrolled nurses in public hospitals, is calling on the Government to act immediately on violence in our hospitals by calling for an emergency summit with frontline staff who encounter violence on a daily basis.

United Voice WA Secretary, Carolyn Smith, has said the Government needs to make this their number one priority.

United Voice WA is calling on Member for Swan, Steve Irons to explain his aggressive response to a question about penalty rate cuts.

Whilst out campaigning a member of the public politely asked the member why he had voted to cut penalty rates, which garnered an aggressive and bizarre response.

United Voice, the Union for disability support workers, welcomes the announcement of a $527 million funded Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with a disability.

Members support a detailed examination of all forms of exploitation and abuse, and in particular a detailed examination of the impediments to effective reporting and timely responses to poor conduct.

About UVL

UVL is a personal injuries law firm dedicated to providing quality legal services in all areas of personal injuries:

• Workers’ compensation claims
• Motor vehicle accident claims
• Public liability claims
• Criminal injuries compensation claims
• Dog attacks/bites

We provide legal services consistent with the union values of fairness and equity.

We are passionate about supporting workers and ensuring they get the best outcomes available. 

The union difference

We pride ourselves on providing the “union difference”.  Our culture and values are union and we fight for the best possible outcome for our clients. We believe in challenging injustice and fighting for workers’ rights. We understand what our clients need and the difficulties they face when seeking compensation.

Unlike other law firms, any money we make is put directly back into helping achieve better pay and conditions for workers in Western Australia.

We are only two weeks in and already two country health members have been back paid an accumulated total of $16,000.

How’s that for a start to the year?

Congratulations to Lou, who after 18 years as a Disability member is retiring.

Working in the care sector for over 35 years, with 18 of those as a Disability Support Worker, Lou has made it her life purpose to bring love and care to others.

United Voice is your union for enrolled nurses, assistants in nursing, hospital support works, and Aboriginal and ethnic health workers. We represent workers in private health across the state and in a range of facilities.

We fight for fair pay, better conditions and job security.

Through collective bargaining United Voice members win pay rises and significant improvements in our conditions of employment.

We empower workers to know their rights at work and advocate on issues impacting us. Members actively work towards solutions in our workplaces and to resolve issue with management through Joint Consultative Committees.  

We’ve fought hard and had a lot of wins together – but there’s still work to be done.

The first step is to join United Voice so we’re as strong as possible, and can keep making progress for private health workers.