Tag: Eric Abetz
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?
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A government of liars
Posted by John, February 4th, 2014 - under Joe Hockey, Lies, Occupations, SPC.
Tags: Abbott, Abbott government, Eric Abetz
Comments: 8
The real message from the SPC decision is that the Liberal Government wants capital to launch attacks on jobs, wages and conditions now to restore declining profit rates and to set the scene for an escalation of rhetoric and attacks when unemployment worsens, as it will in the coming months. A good response, rather than hitting their heads against a brick wall, would be for SPC workers to occupy the plant and begin producing canned fruit for free for poor people.
A wages explosion?
Posted by John, January 29th, 2014 - under Wages.
Tags: Eric Abetz
Comments: 2
The problem for workers isn’t a wages explosion. It is the lack of a wages explosion.