Unite is a former trade union established in Melbourne, Australia, which now describes itself as a 'young workers' campaign group'.
When it was a union, Unite's goal was said to be to organise young workers in fast food and retail in Victoria.
Its establishment in 2006 angered the union with registered coverage of these workers, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA).
It argued that having a rival union would create disunity when the focus should have been on John Howard and WorkChoices, the controversial labour laws that had been introduced at that time, but which have since been abolished.
This decision was due to the creation of the Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, a new union created for more or less the same purpose as Unite – namely, to act as a more progressive alternative to the SDA – but which Unite acknowledged was better-resourced than it.