Archive for February 2nd, 2016
Hey unions – how about fighting for big wage increases as compensation if the GST goes up from 10% to15%?
Posted by John, February 2nd, 2016 - under Scott Morrison, Unions, Wage increases.
Tags: GST
Comments: 6
Since the income tax cuts to compensate for increasing the GST will not deliver real and lasting compensation for workers, and since workers are the one group in society with the power to fix that, the task of militants in our trade unions should be to argue for and organise around winning wages increases to compensate for any increased GST. Over to you militant unions and class conscious workers. Just the threat of GST wage increase strikes might cause some ruling class members to hesitate about increasing the GST. And it might help unions win back some working class support.