Archive for 'minimum wages'
WorkChoices – it’s back
Posted by John, August 4th, 2015 - under minimum wages, Penalty rates, WorkChoices, WorkChoices Lite.
Tags: Abbott government, Enterprise contracts
Comments: 3
The Abbott government will not reject the attacks on penalty rates, the minimum wage slow down, relaxing the unfair dismissal laws or condemn individual contracts that will undermine pay rates for all workers. It will say it is just a draft; it is really just fine tuning what is already there; in the national interest we should all work together to address significant challenges to the economy and jobs, etc etc etc. What this all boils down to is making the working class pay for the crisis of profitability gathering pace in Australia. If the ruling class get these changes through that will open the floodgates for the next set of attacks from the insatiable bosses.
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United Voice Canberra protest against bosses ripping off workers
Posted by John, April 7th, 2015 - under minimum wages, Penalty rates, United Voice.
Tags: Bosses
Comments: none
United Voice is holding a protest action in Kingston in Canberra from 12 pm on Friday 10 April outside a penny pinching café in Kingston which allegedly owes one of their workers $20,000 in unpaid entitlements including penalty rates and payments under the minimum wage. This is an important public demonstration of the role unions play in protecting our community. Support United Vice by coming along to show your solidarity.
The attack on penalty rates
Posted by John, February 26th, 2015 - under minimum wages, Penalty rates, Productivity Commission, The minimum wage.
Tags: Eric Abetz
Comments: 5
Alex McAuley in Red Flag discuses the attempts of the government and the bosses to further cut, or even abolish, penalty rates. This drive won’t go away despite the ongoing crises in the Abbott government seeing the Employment Minister, Senator Abetz, divorce the government from the Productivity Committee inquiry and from implementing any recommendations about either penalty rates or the minimum wage before or after the 2016 election. They know as well as anyone that embracing cuts to the minimum wage and penalty rates would destroy completely their very slim chances of re-election. If, god forbid, they were re-elected they could then change their minds and implement the recommendations to cut the minimum wage and get rid of penalty rates. A government saying one thing before an election and doing something different after. Hard to believe eh?
Bashing the unemployed is about cutting wages
Posted by John, July 31st, 2014 - under minimum wages, Unions, Wages.
Tags: Abbott government, Dole, Dole bludgers
Comments: 2
All of these government changes to the dole, as well as demonising the victims of capitalism and deflecting attention away from the system that creates unemployment by putting profit before people, are also aimed at driving wages down.
The mining maggots
Posted by John, June 4th, 2010 - under minimum wages, Mining, Mining maggots, Resource Super Profits tax.
Comments: none
I wonder what Clive Palmer and all the other mining maggots think about the $26 a week increase for low paid workers.
Parental leave, the minimum wage and the end of civilisation
Posted by John, March 18th, 2010 - under minimum wages, Paid parental leave, Parental leave.
Tags: Australian economy, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian politics
Comments: 2
Those nasty unionists have been arguing for a $27 a week increase in the minimum wage from its current ‘exorbitant’ $544 a week. The end is nigh. Or so the bosses tell us. There are about 1.4 million workers whose salary is dependent in some way on the minimum wage. Paying them a slight increase will […]
Unemployment and the lies of the bosses
Posted by Leonie, July 13th, 2009 - under minimum wages, unemployment, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ALP, Australian Fair Pay Commission, Australian politics
Comments: 3
There are some eternal laws of capitalism. The rich will always blame the rest of us for the problems of their system. Wages are too high they will parrot. We are only trying to save jobs they will lie. The Fair Pay Commission decision to freeze Australia’s minimum wage at $14.31 an hour shows this […]