Tag: Equal pay
Election 2019: the cost of living
Posted by John, April 28th, 2019 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Child care, Dental care scheme, Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work, Gender pay gap
Comments: 2
It is now 17 days into the election campaign and the offerings today (Sunday) highlight the differences between the Coalition and the Labor Party. The Prime Minister offered more fear of refugees; the ALP offered cheaper childcare, better wages for childcare workers and free dental treatment (up to $1000 over two years) for seniors and […]
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Section 47 of the Marriage Act
Posted by John, September 13th, 2017 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Equal pay
Comments: 2
MARRIAGE ACT 1961 – SECT 47 Ministers of religion not bound to solemnise marriage etc. Nothing in this Part: (a) imposes an obligation on an authorised celebrant, being a minister of religion, to solemnise any marriage; or (b) prevents such an authorised celebrant from making it a condition of his or […]
Equal Pay 1972
Posted by John, September 3rd, 2013 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work, Gender pay gap
Comments: none
The gender pay gap is over 17% – isn’t it time for unions to fight?
Posted by John, September 3rd, 2013 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work, Gender pay gap
Comments: 4
The message seems pretty clear. If you don’t fight you lose. It’s way past time for unions to launch an industrial campaign to end the gender pay gap. Unions?
Given the sorry state of most unions in Australia today, it is now time for rank and file unionists to launch an industrial campaign to end the gender pay gap.
The gender pay gap – an update
Posted by John, January 8th, 2013 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work, Gender pay gap
Comments: 1
An argument has broken out about the graduate gender pay gap. It misses the real point. The gender pay gap for all women, graduates or not, is systemic, and can only be overcome by militant industrial action.
Labor’s low pay agenda for women
Posted by John, January 6th, 2013 - under Julia Gillard, Women workers.
Tags: Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work, Equality, Gender pay gap
Comments: 3
A militant industrial response from workers and their unions to the systemic gender pay gap has the best chance of improving the lives of women at work. That is a fight that must of necessity take on the ALP for whom the bosses and their profits are more important than equal pay. The first step in that process must be for workers in low paid and traditional gender stereotype industries to organise to smash the glass ceiling of low and unequal wages.
Equal pay: the fight is not yet over
Posted by John, February 15th, 2012 - under Pay, SACS workers, Social and Community Sector.
Tags: Equal pay
Comments: none
Social and Community Services (SACS) workers across Australia are celebrating a significant victory in their campaign for large scale pay increases. But the drive of governments and big business to cut spending on social services and prioritise profits over the quality of life for ordinary people hasn’t ended. We should savour this sense of what’s possible and we should take that sense of power into the current and future battles for justice.
Don’t be too polite girls, don’t be too polite
Posted by John, March 3rd, 2011 - under Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work
Comments: 2
Today’s International Women’s Day has been stolen from the working class by bourgeois and middle class women and big business, celebrating the opportunity of women to become bosses and lord it over working class women.
The failure to organise a militant fight for equal pay has consigned many women to being second class pay citizens. Join the IWD marches on Saturday 12 March across Australia for equal pay.
It’s time for a real strike campaign for equal pay. Close down the community sector.
Equal pay: don’t believe Labor’s lies
Posted by John, December 15th, 2010 - under Labor Party, Lies.
Tags: Chris Evans, Community sector, Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work
Comments: none
The best way to win equal pay for equal work and to keep and expand jobs in the community sector is to strike.
Free speech, equal pay and equal love: Gillard Labor opposes them all
Posted by John, December 12th, 2010 - under Wikileaks.
Tags: Equal love, Equal pay, Equal wages for equal work, Free speech
Comments: 5
On 3 basic issues, equal pay, equal love and transparency in government, Labor stands opposed to the progressive and democratic position.