Archive for 'Wage slavery'
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.
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Abolition of the wages system
Posted by John, September 19th, 2010 - under Wage slavery, Wages.
Comments: none
The aim of socialists is first to cohere and unite and give voice to the class conscious section of the working class around immediate demands and a socialist program of workers’ power. We workers then have a world to win.
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.
Priests, the abuse of kids and state intervention
Posted by Leonie, May 21st, 2009 - under Northern Territory Intervention, Power, Powerlessness, Sexual abuse, The Catholic Church, Wage slavery.
Tags: Aborigines, Abuse, Bikies, Child abuse
Comments: 7
We invade the Northern Territory to ‘protect’ children. We outlaw bikie gangs for alleged crimes. Why not the same for the Catholic Church?
Can Rugby League survive?
Posted by Leonie, May 13th, 2009 - under Rugby league, Wage slavery, Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: Family
Comments: 1
Women under capitalism are oppressed. From low pay to objectification, women are second class citizens.
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.
Democracy is a funny thing
Posted by Leonie, April 9th, 2009 - under Kate Lundy, Shop, Unions, Wage slavery.
Tags: ALP, Australian politics, CFMEU, Class struggle, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, Democracy, Distributive and Allied Employees Union
Comments: 1
In Canberra the local Labor Party changed its rules to disenfranchise the Community and Public Sector Union.
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 […]
Booze, bingeing and bullshit
Posted by John, March 19th, 2009 - under Jobs, Labor Party, Rudd's revellers, Senator Fielding, The Liberals, The Right, unemployment, Wage slavery.
Tags: Alcohol, Alcopop tax, Alcopox, Alienation, ALP, Australian politics, Big business, Capitalism, Class struggle, Economics, Family First, Fighting back, Great Recession, Grocery retailers
Comments: 2
Let’s get drunk on our power, not their poison.