{"id":235,"date":"2006-04-10T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T21:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2012-06-10T05:59:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T18:59:25","slug":"pow-juice-squeezes-young-workers-with-work-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Juice squeezes young workers with NoWorkChoices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/same-work-40-less\/2006\/04\/09\/1144521210927.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image: smh.com.au\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/amber_oswald_pow_juice_smh.jpg\" alt=\"image: smh.com.au\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>16 year old Amber Oswald works for a <a title=\"don't get squeezed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpjuice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pulp Juice<\/a> kiosk in Warriewood. Last week, she was paid at penalty rates for working weekends and public holidays. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpjuice.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Don't get squeezed by Pulp Juice\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/pulp_juice_freshly_squeezed.jpg\" alt=\"Don't get squeezed by Pulp Juice\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This week, she&#8217;s been &#8216;made redundant&#8217; and then &#8216;rehired&#8217; under an <a title=\"Australian National Union Busting Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oea.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">AWA<\/a>&#8211; with <strong>no<\/strong> penalty rates.<\/p>\n<p>Her boss told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/same-work-40-less\/2006\/04\/09\/1144521210927.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If they don&#8217;t want to sign, they can leave,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about what&#8217;s fair, it&#8217;s [about] what&#8217;s right &#8211; <strong>right for the company<\/strong>.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what are Amber&#8217;s choices? Clearly, she doesn&#8217;t have any- but we sure do.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Boycott<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpjuice.com\/Main.aspx?id=16\" target=\"_blank\">Pulp Juice bars<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If Pulp Juice managment thought paying workers at a fair rate was expensive, I wonder how expensive a <em>total lack of clientele<\/em> will be?<\/p>\n<p>Heard any other stories of workers being screwed by <a title=\"John Howard's Dickensian assault on working Aussies\" href=\"https:\/\/www.workchoices.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">NoWorkChoices<\/a>? Post them here in the comments area.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 year old Amber Oswald works for a Pulp Juice kiosk in Warriewood. Last week, she was paid at penalty rates for working weekends and public holidays. This week, she&#8217;s been &#8216;made redundant&#8217; and then &#8216;rehired&#8217; under an AWA&#8211; with no penalty rates. Her boss told the Sydney Morning Herald: &#8220;If they don&#8217;t want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}