Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break"

cyu · 2 days ago

Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break"

xmunk · 2 days ago

Imagine living in a society where unions aren’t reviled… America is so thoroughly broken societally.

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 2 days ago

The union in this article though (SDA) is one of the worst in Australia. A newer independent union (RAFFWU) campaigning and unionising in the same sector was able to expose that this more established union had been signing off on terrible bargaining agreements leaving workers missing out on tens of millions (or possibly hundreds of millions, I can’t remember) in lost wages among other things.

Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break"

Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break"

AI: Retail union vows to push for wage increases - Ragtrader