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Industrial disputes & news - 16 April 2025
#NSWDoctors ; St Mary’s Community Health Centre; #Cleanaway ; #KeolisDowner ; #FireRescueVictoria; #Qube ; #RamsayHealthCare ; #WorkfortheDole #AUWU ; #CFMEU Manufacturing Deamalgamation & #IWMD
https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-16-april?
Disputes Report · Industrial disputes & news - 16 April 2025
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Raising Jobseeker to $80 per day—in line with the Raise the Rate campaign—and indexing it to keep up with wages would cost $9.5 billion per year.
This a fraction of the cost of superannuation tax concessions ($50 billion per year) or the Capital Gains Tax discount ($15 billion), both of which mainly benefit the richest Australians.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/jobseeker-payments-are-too-low/
The Australia Institute · Jobseeker payments are too lowNo-one in Australia should have to live on $56 a day. The current Jobseeker payment is inadequate by every metric, and the majority of families that rely on it live below the poverty line.
Abolish Work for the Dole
12pm-1.30pm Monday April 14th
DEWR (Department of Employment and Workplace Relations)
410 LaTrobe Street Melb CBD
Near Flagstaff train station.
Australian Unemployed Worker’s Union
Www.awu.org.au
This injustice may yet cause unrest ?
Poverty in Australia
(2024 Probably 4 million struggling & many more working poor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia#:~:text=19.3%25%20after%20benefits.-,Henderson%20Inquiry,child%20endowment%20for%20two%20children.
Henderson poverty line = $612.10 a week for a single person…
median weekly rent value across all Australian dwellings is $627 a week…
price of food was up more than 17% for households…
en.wikipedia.orgPoverty in Australia - Wikipedia
#AUWU Victoria Co-ordination Jessica Harrison said the high rates of suspension, as previously reported in @guardian Australia, had resulted in unnecessary stress for #jobseekers: #APM suspended payments of 32,220 claimants. That’s over 2,600 per week.
Protestors at the APM office in #Brunswick on Monday
One of the protestors carried a sign that said “show us your payslips” in reference to the provider threatened to hand over payslip details, which would trigger a publicly funded payment.
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APM Awarded Worst Job Agency 2024
By Australian Unemployed Workers Union https://auwu.substack.com/p/apm-wins-award-for-worst-job-agency
AUWU media · APM wins award for worst job agency of the year
BREADLINE is presented by the #AUWU Australian #UnemployedWorkers #Union Monday 6-6:30pm
By the unemployed for the unemployed the AUWU members will cover the latest inequities of the "welfare" system and how to organise to fight back!
#3CR has given space on the airwaves and stood in #solidarity with unemployed workers since 1976.
You can listen live or listen back anytime
https://www.3cr.org.au/breadline
#FionaKatauskas #Economics #Budget #Surplus #JobSeeker #Unemployment #poverty #AUWU
Australian Unemployed Workers #Union
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Employment/ #Unemployment
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/latest-release
#JobSeeker payment rate
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-much-jobseeker-payment-you-can-get?context=51411
Wherever you are whatever you do there is a Union for you.
Australian Unemployed Workers #Union
#AUWU
Did you know that #Centrelink answers less than one out of every four calls?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/30/did-you-know-that-centrelink-answers-less-than-one-out-of-every-four-calls?
Also Debt Repayments https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/30/centrelink-debt-repayments-paused-potentially-unlawful
The Guardian · Did you know that Centrelink answers less than one out of every four calls?
Remember how Centrelink was so deliberately bad in those terrible old Liberal days?
Now it is Labor's days & things are worse. [Gosh no-one knew that would happen did they?]
Thanks to the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, #Centrestink allows you to report your interactions or lack of interactions with them.
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This policy is a joke and blatantly unfair by sheer 'luck of the draw'.
The shutdown will also affect participants with reporting obligations due after January 2 2023.
If that's you, please email us, we are marshalling complaints and media interest.
advocacy@auwu.org.au
Merry Xmas, Tony Burke
#MutualObligations are SUSPENDED for all programs from today (19/12/22) until 2/1/2023.
Until 2/1/2023 you are not required to engage with your provider, or undertake any activities.
The #AUWU hotline will shut during this period and reopen 3/1/2023.
Further, any 'mutual' obligations you have due should have their due date suspended by 14 days. For example, if you had a job search due on 6/1/2023 that should now be due 20/1/2023.
Please get in touch with advocacy@auwu.org.au if that hasn't happened.