KRUSTY34, if the situation on pay and T&C's is as dire as you portray it (and I have no reason to doubt that), why don't you team up some like-minded colleagues and take REX to the Workplace Ombudsman (or whatever other body will hear you) and take the fight to the company? Forget the lame-@ss union or the other entities you cannot control, take some action that you
can control!
Seems you'd have a pretty good case, and the culture in REX management literally seem to ask for such a response from their employees as they seem to think they can import a foreign work ethic and just rule the company as they seem fit -- unfortunately, so far, they seem to get away with it, which in itself is noteworthy, but that's a different discussion I guess..