Archive for 'Wage freezes'
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 […]
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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.
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.
Social democracy rules, OK?
Posted by Bill, April 14th, 2009 - under Jobs, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Maternity leave, Nationalisation, Neoliberalism, Obama, Occupations, Paid maternity leave, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Social Democracy, Stimulus package, Strikes, The Australian, The Great Recession, The Left, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, United States, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wage slavery, Wages, Work hours.
Tags: 30 hour week, ABCC, ALP, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Australian politics, Big business, Building industry, Capitalism, CFMEU, Class struggle, Creative destruction, Demonstrations, Economic crisis, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: 13
Social democratic controlled burning won’t prevent the firestorm of the Great Recession from destroying hundreds of millions of lives across the globe. Rudd Labor will fan the flames.
Labor’s Kaiser: ‘efficiency’ dividend means less jobs
Posted by John, March 29th, 2009 - under Jobs, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, meat axe, Public Service, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ALP, Anna Bligh, Australian politics, dextering, efficiency dividend
Comments: 2
Only industrial action will stop the dexters in the Federal Labor Government from splattering the blood of thousands of innocents on the abattoir floor of unemployment.
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.
France is our future
Posted by John, March 21st, 2009 - under Jobs, New Anti-captialist Party, NPA, Occupations, Olivier Besancenot, Public Service, Resistance, Revolution, sackings, Stimulus package, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes.
Tags: Capitalism, Class struggle, Democracy, Demonstrations, Elections, Fighting back, France, General strike, Guadeloupe
Comments: none
The recent general strikes in France were a success. Pressure is building from below for more action.
Labor will dexter the public service
Posted by John, March 12th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Lindsay Tanner, Living standards, meat axe, Productivity, Public Service, Resistance, sackings, Social Democracy, Strikes, Tanner, Tax, Tax Office, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions, Wage cuts, Wage freezes, Wages.
Tags: ALP, ATO, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, dextering, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Great Recession
Comments: none
Lindsay Tanner will not take a meat axe to the public service. He’ll dexter it. Although the techniques are very different, the results are the same. Tanner will destroy public service jobs, programs and lives. In Long-term sustainable growth, a speech Tanner gave to the National Press Club on 11 March, the Minister for Finance said: The Rudd Government inherited an […]