Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) Archives

Issue #2188

Why we fight in retail and fast food

“It’s not worth the energy.” The fight to unionise in retail is hard. If it were easy, it’d already be done. It often feels like...

Issue #2154

ALDI shoots the messenger, workers fight back

On 11 July, the United Workers Union and Retail, Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU), Community and Public Sector Union and the National Tertiary Education Union...

Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union (RAFFWU)

Issue #2209

Anti-RAFFWU bill fails

Members of the Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union (RAFFWU) are ecstatic that Ben Carroll’s bill, the associations bill, has failed to pass the Victorian...

Issue #2191

Class action against KFC

Tens of thousands of KFC workers across Australia are being urged to sign up for a class action against KFC before registrations close on 26...

Issue #2203

Analysis

Victorian Labor have introduced a bill, the Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill 2026, which sets out a pathway for forcibly ending the operations of unregistered...

Issue #2203

Victoria: Labor moves against RAFFWU

Guardian the Workers’ Weekly spoke to Loukas Kakogiannis, secretary of the Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union (RAFFWU) about the legislation the Carroll Labor government...

Issue #2206

Support for RAFFWU and retail workers

Members and supporters of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union (RAFFWU) have rallied in Naarm/Melbourne and Borloo/Perth to demand that Victorian Labor drop its...

Issue #2203

CPA condemns attack on retail union

The Communist Party of Australia opposes the Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment Bill 2026. Introduced by the Victorian Labor government, this bill is an unjustifiable attack...

Issue #2153

DINGO

Australian unions have won the right for thousands of workers employed in McDonald’s fast-food outlets to bargain together to improve their pay and conditions. A...

Workers turned out in force in Meanjin/Brisbane to support the CFMEU against attacks from the Labor government.

Issue #2117

Retail workers support CFMEU

For weeks we have seen sustained attacks on the CFMEU. Of course, no-one supports any criminal conduct, anywhere. However, alleged criminality is not and cannot...

Issue #2204

Victoria’s Ben Carroll set to shred workers’ rights

The Victorian Ben Carroll Labor government is continuing with its attempt to shred workers rights to freedom of association with the Associations Incorporation Reform Amendment...