Archive for 'Living standards'
Cut profits, not wages
Posted by Leonie, July 7th, 2009 - under Industrial action, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Keynesian neo-liberalism, Keynesianism, Labor Party, Labor wage cuts, Living standards, Neoliberal Keynesianism, Neoliberal unionism, Productivity, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Strikes, Unemployed, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages, Workers.
Tags: ABCC, ACTU, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Building unions, Capitalism, Classes, Fair Pay Commission
Comments: 1
The reality for the working class is that to defend jobs and living standards they will have to strike, despite the opposition of Rudd Labor and the ACTU.
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Cut the pension age to 60
Posted by Bill, May 25th, 2009 - under Living standards, Pensioners, Retirement, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor.
Tags: ALP, Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Capital gains, Capitalism, Carers, Classes, HowRuddistas
Comments: 5
It’s time for workers to demand a just retirement on a living wage at 60.
The Tax Office: the attacks on staff continue
Posted by Bill, May 3rd, 2009 - under Labor Party, Labor sackings, Living standards, Public Service, Resistance, sackings, Strikes, Tax Office, Trade unions, Unions.
Tags: ALP, ATO, Australian Tax Office, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Demonstrations, efficiency dividend, Fighting back
Comments: 5
By striking and stopping Government revenue, tax officers can win large wage increases and job security.
Jackboot junkies and bikie gangs
Posted by Leonie, April 28th, 2009 - under Industrial Workers of the World, Jobs, Labor Party, Living standards, New South Wales, Right to organise, Socialism, Socialist Alternative, Trade unions, Unions.
Tags: ACTU, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian politics, Bikies, Building industry, Building unions, CFMEU, Class struggle, Fascism, Free speech, Freedom
Comments: 1
The ABCC; the ‘bikie gang’ laws; anti-terrorism laws; the loss of habeas corpus – the ruling class jackboots are stirring.
Commonwealth Bank cuts workers’ wages
Posted by Bill, April 19th, 2009 - under Jobs, Living standards, Resistance, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: Australian politics, Banks, Big business, Bonuses, Bosses pay, Capitalism, Economic crisis, Fighting back, Finance Sector Union, Great Recession
Comments: 1
Commonwealth Bank management salary cuts are tokenistic posturing aimed at convincing staff to accept a real wage cut.
Is this 1929 or 1989, or both?
Posted by Leonie, April 17th, 2009 - under Jobs, Living standards, Marxism 2009, Occupations, Qantas, Resistance, Revolution, sackings, Strikes, The Depression, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Class struggle, Democracy, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Europe, Fighting back, Great Recession, Green energy, Green jobs
Comments: none
Every strike contains the seeds of revolution. Therein lies our hope and our future.
The Left, internet filtering and missing the point
Posted by John, March 28th, 2009 - under Internet filtering, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Living standards, Resistance, Right to organise, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, Stephen Conroy, The Australian, The Depression, The Great Recession, The Left, unemployment, Wages, WorkChoices, WorkChoices Lite.
Tags: ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Capitalism, Class struggle, Communist Party, Democracy, Economics, Fair Work Australia, Fighting back, Free speech, Freedom
Comments: 2
The Left should encourage and join workers to fight for their jobs and livelihoods, and so help defend and extend our freedoms.
The bosses’ wage terrorism begins
Posted by John, March 24th, 2009 - under Labor Party, Living standards, The Great Recession, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages.
Tags: ALP, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Bonuses, Bosses pay, Capitalism, Hours
Comments: 1
What an obscenity. The rich and powerful are telling the poorly paid that a wage increase would be bad. Not bad for the poorly paid mind you, but bad for the rich and powerful. Hard to imagine isn’t it – Australia’s CEOs as caring sharing types worried about job losses? Don’t laugh. Evidently they care about […]
Queensland has class
Posted by John, March 22nd, 2009 - under Jobs, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Living standards, meat axe, Neoliberalism, Public Service, Queensland, Resistance, Rudd, sackings, Springborg, Strikes, The Great Recession, The Right, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian politics, Capitalism, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: 2
Working class voters decided Premier Bligh in Queensland could protect and create jobs. She can’t. Politics is about to get very interesting.
French workers, revolution and the lessons of history
Posted by John, March 22nd, 2009 - under Jobs, Living standards, New Anticapitalist Party, Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, NPA, Reformism, Resistance, Revolution, Strikes.
Tags: Capitalism, Democracy, Demonstrations, Europe, France
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Will French workers learn the lessons of history? Can the strikes there lead to a democratic working class revolution with production organised to satisfy human need? I wrote this piece – May ’68 in Paris – for Socialist Alternative last year. It may be one small contribution to the discussion. It was written well before the […]