Despite workers delivering the same, high-quality work, big business want to take away key workplace entitlements for admin and clerical workers - all because they work from home.
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Over 300 million workers striking in India this week against Modi's new labour code, from all industries and all unions. Gosh it would be good to hear more about this on the news! #canlab

Best drain lid ever

Unions are back: More people are now covered by a collective agreement than ever before and getting better wages.

This Greg Sheridan piece shows you why the Coalition fails to get why they aren’t winning back Chinese Australian voters. They think the issue is clumsy language being weaponised rather than deep seated distrust due to their own actions www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/can... #auspol #ausvotes

Trumpet of Patriots Proves That Net Zero Is Achievable — The Shovel The Trumpets of Patriots gained zero seats in the lower house, which when added to the zero seats won in the Senate, achieved a net result of zero seats.

"The Trumpets of Patriots gained zero seats in the lower house, which when balanced with the zero seats won in the Senate, achieved a net result of zero seats"

cognitive dissonance for the win

LOL. Their 7th policy on slashing the public service for the win?!?

Exciting news! I will be holding a Melbourne launch for my new history of the Australian union movement "No Power Greater: A History of Union Action" on Thursday 29 May, 6.30pm at Trades Hall, Carlton. RSVPs essential: lnkd.in/giZ2_Rrm

Now employers are saying minimum wage workers should not earn enough to pay $3.94/day for lunch or to afford to rent in big cities. Albanese supports a real wage rise for these workers, Peter Dutton does not.

Charts showing the real value of the minimum wage, and what it would be if the FWC had listened to ACCI. Rather than $24.10/hr, it would be $19.87/hr. And rather than be 6.7% higher in value than in 2015 it would be 12% lower.

If business groups had their way, the lowest-paid workers would now be paid $160 a week less.

The FWC should ignore the fears of business groups and give those on awards and the minimum wage a decent pay rise.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #OffTheCharts
australiainstitute.org.au/post/if-busi...

Dutton doubles down on public service cuts

The @cpsu.org.au has crunched the numbers & based on the most recent data, a 5-year hiring APS freeze would slash:

- 12,500 jobs or 42% of Services Australia staff
- Almost 1k jobs or 27% of Veterans Affairs staff
- 2,070 jobs or 21% of NDIA staff

www.cpsu.org.au/CPSU/Content...

#auspol

Even if you don’t work in the federal public sector, Dutton’s planned attack on work from home still affects you

It’s about sending a signal to all bosses that it’s ok to force WFH back to the pre-pandemic situation where it was rare

If they win & do it, bosses will be further emboldened

#auspol

Wages blowout puts mounting pressure on business balance sheets "The soaring national wages bill is putting increasing pressure on business balance sheets, which augurs poorly for a return to private sector growth," said Innes Willox, Chief Executive of national e...

With no signs of shame, this employer lobby group has just seamlessly flipped from arguing that wages should be cut to tame inflation, to… wages should be cut because inflation has been tamed: www.aigroup.com.au/news/media-c...

They hate DEI but want to force universities to have ideological diversity. They want unfettered masculinity but want to control women's bodies. They want free choice but won't let trans people choose. They want to harden our borders but want to transgress borders whenever they wish. 1/2

Defence, Centrelink roles among the '36,000' added jobs in Dutton's crosshairs Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggests $24 billion could be saved if 36,000 public service jobs added by the Albanese government were cut. Thousands of those added have been in agencies critical to n...

These jobs aren’t “added”, they’ve been brought on-book, which is cheaper and more reliable.

Dutton just wants to give the APS wages budget to PwC et al
#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Inflation is higher in the UK than here and they’ve just lowered interest rates for the third time. Wake up RBA!

He doesn’t care about the efficient delivery of public services, he just wants to slash 36,000 jobs to outsource the work to the Big Four & multinational labour hire corporations like Hays, Outsourcing Inc & Adecco

#auspol

Perfect. You can support Canada and Mexico by getting your drink on.

No more excuses: the time has come for the RBA to cut interest rates | Greg Jericho Failure to do so would be wrong, and highly political, given the latest inflation figures * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast And just like that the Reserve Bank ran…

No more excuses: the time has come for the RBA to cut interest rates | Greg Jericho

Charts showing USA and Aus inflation before and after peak - showing Aus inflation is lower 24 months after the peak than it was in the USA at the same time.

Pouring one out for those last year saying the RBA needed to raise rates more in order to be as good as the USA in bringing down inflation.

Big gathering in Narm/Melbourne today to mark Invasion Day.

Rio to supply its first export green aluminium - the green future is here - Australian Manufacturing Forum By Peter Roberts The green industry dam is burst – after years if not decades of talk that Australia’s minerals will one day have to go green to survive in a world where trade favours green production...

Dutton has just said that he can’t name an aluminium smelter powered by renewables anywhere in the world. Obviously didn’t have 5 spare seconds to google: www.aumanufacturing.com.au/rio-to-suppl...

Thousands of imports enter Australia from firms blacklisted by US over alleged Uyghur forced labour links Imports of a range of products, including parts for Sydney Metro vehicles, increase despite US bans on dozens of companies

Long past time to ban imports of goods made with forced labour: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Peter Dutton has just announced free lunches for business leaders but he does not support free TAFE for everyone else. It seems he has no problem with tax payer funded free stuff so long as it’s just for bosses.

Whatever Dutton claims the cost of his nuclear plants are, seems pretty reasonable to just double it.

Major IR reform that has helped to get wages moving.

Do they know that a town in the French Riviera has stolen their name?

Bosses to face jail time with wage theft now a crime

An estimated 1.5 million workers are underpaid. But the employer lobby is calling tougher laws to end wage theft “burdensome”. www.9news.com.au/national/wag...

Merry Christmas to all