Protest against rip-off of guestworker

May 10, 2006
Issue 

CANBERRA — On May 5, Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union members protested outside the swish Holy Grail restaurant. The restaurant's owner owes $10,000 in unpaid wages to Dario DeGuzman, a Filipino guestworker.

"Community pressure is needed to help Dario get his wages back and to show that fair-minded Australians will not stand for the exploitation of overseas workers under the Howard government's temporary migration program", ACTU president Sharan Burrow told the protesters.

Tim Stewart

From Green Left Weekly, May 10, 2006.
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