Max Fox, Committee Member Max has worked in retail for the past five years. His strong belief in unions was inspired by an incident of wage theft, which was an unfortunate reminder that workers need the power of a union to support them when things go wrong and to fight for workplace rights, and has been heavily involved with unions ever since, including as a RAFFWU delegate and Vice-President of the QUT Student Guild, the union for Queensland University of Technology students with more than 50,000 members. Max recently graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry). Rhiannon Howard, Committee Member In Rhiannon's six years in retail, she has worked as a sales assistant in the United States and Australia. Rhiannon's involvement with RAFFWU began in 2021 when she and her fellow workers at Dangerfield engaged in a successful campaign demanding security and up-to-date safety protocols. Rhiannon is currently a union delegate at the Dangerfield Flinders Street store. Rhiannon believes in the collective power that retail and fast-food workers hold together. Rhiannon is interested in helping younger and minority workers understand their power and rights in order to build safer and fairer workplaces. Rhiannon holds a Bachelor of Media and Communication (Cinema) and will soon undertake a Juris Doctor. Loukas Kakogiannis, Committee Member Loukas worked at Woolworths from 2011 to 2019. In 2018, he became the RAFFWU delegate for Woolworths Moorabbin where he led a safety campaign calling upon Woolworths to put the safety of staff before profits. In 2018, Loukas applied for a backdated termination of the 2012 Woolworths SDA Enterprise Agreement which targeted over a $1 billion in wages stripped under old rotten agreements. That case was undermined when SDA and Woolworths cut a new deal. Loukas believes in RAFFWU to take on the big retailers through worker-led, militant trade unionism. lkakogiannis@raffwu.org.au Mon Mulveney, Committee Member Mon has been a retail worker for eight years, with experience working as a casual, Assistant Store Manager and Store Manager for companies such as MYER, Pandora and Dangerfield. They have a BA of Performance from the University of Wollongong. Over the last year, Mon has been instrumental in unionising the Dangerfield and Princess Highway (DF/PH) workforce in Melbourne. Alongside RAFFWU and DF/PH members they’re campaigning for an Enterprise Agreement that will be seeking industry leading workplace conditions. This work resulted in Mon being elected to the RAFFWU committee, and joining RAFFWU as an organiser. They would like to see a shift where business owners begin to minimise personal profits and focus more on the support of their workforce, with particular focus on liveable wages, and safe work spaces and practices. COMMITTEE 32
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