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Maude Nificent

#Auspol #Wages

i owe the #ALP an apology — i thought they were completely useless, but <same job same pay> is in principle an important leap forward.

since forever women and other marginalised people have been underpaid, based on the assumption they are less productive. now, employers can no longer use bias about productivity to discriminate in wages. (of course, they can continue to do what they have always done which is to simply not give jobs to women and marginalised people, but same job same pay does remove an excuse for ripping people off if they do have a job)

so… what does #LNP plan to do about it? if the party says they will repeal it but Dutton says he won’t, whom should we trust? If dutton doesn’t back down to party demands, how hard would it be to depose him as leader after the election?

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-05/sam

ABC News · Future of Same Job Same Pay industrial relations laws remain in doubt under CoalitionBy Samantha Dick
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 31, 1883: Cowboys in the Texas panhandle began a 2-and-a-half-month strike for higher wages. Investment firms from the East Coast and Europe were taking over the land and cutting benefits that cowboys had accustomed to, like keeping some horses for themselves and holding some of the land for their own small farming. New ranch owners were more interested in expanding holdings and increasing profits, forcing their hands to work entirely for wages, and maintaining all livestock entirely for the profit of the owners.

Media from as far away as Colorado accused the cowboys of being incendiaries, threatening to burn down the ranches, attacking ranchers, and indiscriminately killing cattle.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cowboy #strike #texas #wages #books #nonfiction #author #writer @bookstadon

Cover of “The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West” by Mark A. Lause
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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

Assessing the Value of Incomplete University Degrees: Experimental Evidence from HR Recruiters d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izad
"… studying unsuccessfully for a degree directly related to a job can still yield positive returns in terms of #wages compared to activities not focused on formal #humanCapital accumulation, such as working and traveling. However, back of the envelope calculations show that these increases just cover the direct and opportunity costs of studying.
… HR recruiters view years of unsuccessful study without a direct link to a job as “lost” years, offering substantially lower wages to such applicants compared to people who have a university entrance diploma but have never studied.
… recruiters highly value alternative forms of human capital acquisition, and may largely prefer it to unsuccessful university studies. In the scenario we used, HR recruiters showed a strong preference for people without a degree who had completed a company-based #traineeship.
In sum, these results suggest that a failed degree is rarely a worthwhile investment—at least in the eyes of HR recruiters."
#LaborMarkets #apprenticeships #universityDegrees

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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

Striking Atlanta sanitation workers, and supporters, walking the picket line, carrying signs that say, “City Workers On Strike.”
#workingclass#LaborHistory#union
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History: March 28, 1968: Martin Luther King led a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Police attacked the workers with mace and sticks. A 16-year old boy was shot. 280 workers were arrested. He was assassinated a few days later after speaking to the striking workers. The sanitation workers were mostly black. They worked for starvation wages under plantation like conditions, generally under racist white bosses. Workers could be fired for being one minute late or for talking back, and they got no breaks. Organizing escalated in the early 1960s and reached its peak in February, 1968, when two workers were crushed to death in the back of a garbage truck.

I Am a Man - Diorama of Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, showing men carrying placards that say, “I am a Man.” - National Civil Rights Museum - Downtown Memphis - Tennessee – USA. By Adam Jones, Ph.D. - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22197466
#workingclass#LaborHistory#memphis
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The Japan Times

Japan’s biggest union group reported the biggest wage gains in more than three decades for two successive years, but the broader picture for pay trends may not be quite as rosy, according to one think tank. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #wages #rengo #shunto #unions

The Japan Times · Japan’s wage growth isn’t as rosy as Rengo’s data indicateBy Erica Yokoyama
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The Japan Times

Agreements so far in Japan’s spring wage negotiations are off to a solid start, with the Bank of Japan watching closely for steady wage increases as it looks to depart from decadeslong ultraloose monetary policy. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025 #business #economy #shunto #unions #rengo #wages #jobs #japaneseeconomy

The Japan Times · Japanese wages likely to rise more than 5% again this yearBy Kazuaki Nagata
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