Tag: 30 hour week
Lift the pension age or tax the rich?
Posted by John, November 22nd, 2013 - under Pension 'reform', Pensioners, Retirement, Superannuation, Tax the rich.
Tags: 30 hour week, GST
Comments: 5
They are waging class war against us. The Productivity Commission pension recommendations are just one part of that war.
Isn’t it time we fought back instead of turning the other cheek and being smashed by the bosses and their politicians in both major parties every bloody day?
They are burning us out. Instead of increasing the pension age, cut it to 60.
The time for a 30 hour week is now. The time for taxing the rich is now.
The time for fighting back is now.
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Would a 30 hour week save Australian cricket?
Posted by John, January 10th, 2011 - under rate of profit, Unions.
Tags: 30 hour week, ACTU
Comments: 4
It’s time for a campaign for a 30 hour week without loss of pay. Such a week merely returns to workers some of the gains in productivity we have made over the last 30 years, and which the bosses have stolen from us. It will also help reduce unemployment and underemployment. Calls for cutting the working week have a […]
Working harder, working longer, for less
Posted by John, February 1st, 2010 - under Intergenerational report, Labor Party, Retirement, The Liberals, Work hours, WorkChoices.
Tags: 30 hour week, Global financial crisis
Comments: 8
A 30 hour week and retirement for all on the average wage at sixty is affordable. Make the bosses pay for their system, not us.
Why do women earn less than men?
Posted by John, November 24th, 2009 - under Women workers, Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: 30 hour week, Australian politics, Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work, Fair Work Australia
Comments: 1
Women’s lower status in terms of pay and work responsibilities is an integral part of capitalism. It flows from the very way the system is organised.
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.