Archive for 'unemployment'
Unemployment is rising rapidly in Australia
Posted by John, December 16th, 2014 - under Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, MYEFO, Resistance, unemployment.
Tags: Fighting back
Comments: 3
Is there an alternative to rising unemployment? Because unemployment is built into the capitalist system, we will have to fight the bosses and government to stop it. That means using our industrial muscle to stop the bosses sacking us and forcing them to pay us more than pittance wages.
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Joe Hockey gets it cars about
Posted by John, August 13th, 2014 - under Joe Hockey, Poverty, Unemployed, unemployment.
Tags: Car travel, Fuel excise
Comments: 16
Let’s be fair. Hockey is partly right. With his government increasing unemployment – it jumped from 6% to 6.4% last month – and denying those under 30 the dole for 6 months, young unemployed people won’t be able to buy food let alone drive anywhere.
Why is the Australian government targetting the unemployed?
Posted by John, May 14th, 2014 - under Newstart allowance, Unemployed, unemployment.
Tags: Dole, Dole bludgers
Comments: 4
Forcing the unemployed into extreme poverty is an important part of the government’s wage cutting strategy. It is time for our unions to defend the unemployed and their own members. Stop work to stop the bosses’ Budget.
Abbott’s green army will be paid poverty wages
Posted by John, March 2nd, 2014 - under Poverty wages, Slave wages, unemployment, Union rights, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage slavery, Wages, Work for the dole.
Tags: Abbott government, Green army
Comments: 8
Can unemployed workers and others being conscripted into the green army organise and fight back against this rotten exploitation? Absolutely. Will they? Well, since they aren’t covered by industrial laws, withholding their labour won’t be illegal.
If there were a lead from the ACTU and other unions, perhaps they would take action, supported by other workers industrially and financially. If not, then the downward spiral of wages is likely to accelerate under the impact of Tony Abbott’s slave wage green army.
The spectre haunting Australia – unemployment
Posted by John, January 22nd, 2012 - under Underemployment, Unemployed, unemployment.
Comments: 6
A spectre is haunting Australia; the spectre of unemployment. Because this is a crisis of profitability in the developed countries, pussyfooting around and kowtowing to capital won’t work. In the words of the BLF: If you don’t fight, you lose.The time to fight unemployment is now, not when it hits six or seven or eight percent. A 30 hour week without loss of pay would be a start.
Bill Shorten is much more offensive than Teresa Gambaro
Posted by John, January 11th, 2012 - under Newstart allowance, Teresa Gambaro, The dole, Underemployment, Unemployed, unemployment.
Tags: Bill Shorten
Comments: 4
The last few days have shown us that the Liberals are scapegoating immigrants. Labor is scapegoating the unemployed. Both scapegoat refugees. None of these people are to blame for the crises of capitalism. Fight the system, not its victims.
Attack the real bludgers, Gillard
Posted by John, April 14th, 2011 - under Underemployment, Unemployed, unemployment.
Tags: Disabled, Dole bludgers, Gillard, Gillard Government, Gillard Labor
Comments: 60
We live in an unjust society. This is a society where bosses take as their own the profits we create. Labour creates value, not capital.
The owners of capital are the real bludgers. But Gillard won’t attack them. She is, like the rest of the ALP, their servant.
Obama: making the Republicans look good
Posted by John, January 21st, 2010 - under Massachusetts, Obama, unemployment, War.
Tags: Health care, Health Insurance, Health reform
Comments: 11
People weren’t voting for the Republicans in Massachusetts. They were voting against Obama’s business as usual administration.
US racism: the game stays the same
Posted by John, January 12th, 2010 - under Obama, Racism, Underemployment, unemployment, United States, US politics.
Tags: Barack Obama, Game changers, Harry Reid
Comments: 4
Obama now heads the racist machine. As he destroys the illusions millions had in him, the lesson seems clear. Change comes not from changing who runs the system but from changing the system.
They party; we get the sack
Posted by John, September 17th, 2009 - under Profit rates, Recession, Underemployment, unemployment.
Tags: Australia, Capitalism, Economic crisis, Economics
Comments: none
While we face increasing unemployment and less working hours, the bosses party. What a sick society. What a rotten system.