(Thanks @theferret )
Loch Lomond Golf Course
https://theferret.scot/union-living-wage-row-elite-scots-golf-club/
“Living Wage”
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/
#golf #livingwage #LochLomond #unions
#profits #stolenwages #labormovement #unions #UNITE
#NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #CorporateProfits #WageSlaves #LaborMakesEverything #LivingWage #StolenWages
I posted this five years ago in 2020.
![Political cartoon from 2020:
"The Rising Economic Tide..."
[Corporate Executive standing on the shoulders of Wage Earners with water up to their eye-balls]
Corporate Executives, "Profits are up! My compensation has DOUBLED! Look at me! I'm Walking on water!"
Wage Earners, "WAGED ARE FLAT... MY BUYING POWER IS SHRINKING... I'M NOT EVEN TREADING WATER!"](https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/992/791/154/670/897/original/c3aaf96677902938.png "Political cartoon from 2020:
\"The Rising Economic Tide...\"
[Corporate Executive standing on the shoulders of Wage Earners with water up to their eye-balls]
Corporate Executives, \"Profits are up! My compensation has DOUBLED! Look at me! I'm Walking on water!\"
Wage Earners, \"WAGED ARE FLAT... MY BUYING POWER IS SHRINKING... I'M NOT EVEN TREADING WATER!\"")
Mervyn Street’s parents were paid in rocks instead of wages. He led a fight for his people – and won $180m https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/12/stolen-wages-fremantle-arts-centre-exhibition-feature #auslaw #auspol #stolenwages
“Conservative Civilisation” aka Carry on #stolenwages ? (Abbott - Costello -Credlin-Deeming Murdoch ad nauseum)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/12/bridget-mckenzie-moira-deeming-and-key-news-corp-figures-to-attend-jordan-petersons-civilisation-conference
International Transport Workers' Federation recovered $30.7 million in #stolenwages for #seafarers last year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/union-recovers-30-million-dollars-in-seafarer-wages/104789568
Capitalists always keen to reduce “the cost of labour” profiting from cheapest workforce “illegals” desperation & perfectly legal #wageslavery
#wagetheft and unpaid toil #stolenwages of incarcerated workers
https://www.palabranahj.org/archive/the-deep-roots-of-deportation
What’s outrageous ?
#StolenWages
(Been a while getting justice, such small “back pay” from 1930-1970s)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/federal-court-judgement-144-million-stolen-wages-to-families/104644674
Federal Court grants $144 million to Aboriginal families in stolen wages class action judgement
#UBI
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/daniel-walking-australia-for-basic-income/103880424
Food - Public #Library #CookingClasses
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-10/melbourne-library-cooking-class/103952948
Also “#HarvestTrail “ #Backpackers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-11/harvest-trail-services-axed-after-26-years/103952646
2018 #StolenWages / #WageTheft
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-06-27/workplace-watchdog-investigation-into-labour-exploitation/9911710
What’s outrageous ?
Stolen Wages !
(Profits from Wage Theft)
“ large scale underpayments at #Qantas, #BHP, #NAB, #CBA, #Coles, #Woolworths, Super Retail Group and the ABC.
NSW Health underpaid junior doctors a quarter of a billion dollars.
University of Queensland owed $8 million to 10,000 staff… $180 Million wage theft in the tertiary sector in excess of $180 million; #NTEU.”
#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs: Through a combination of union power and a protracted legal battle, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) has clawed back $328 million in #stolenwages from Uber and Lyft for over eighty thousand drivers throughout the city.
Stockman Mervyn Street and the history that prompted a $180m Indigenous stolen wages settlement https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-11/stockman-mervyn-street-indigenous-stolen-wages-settlement/103075386 via @ABCaustralia #stolenwages #IndigenousIP #auslaw #auspol
Aboriginal rugby teams in interwar Queensland reduced segregation & bolstered community pride, according to new paper in @apehr. However, revenue went to the state gov’t reflecting the dispossession of Aboriginal Queenslanders. Ethically comparable to Stolen Wages! https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12260
@econhist @devecon @laborecon @ecosocio @economics @sociology @politicalscience #history #histodons #Aboriginal #rugby #Australia #StolenWages #Dispossession #Queensland #sport #discrimination #indigenous
