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#LivingWage

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Day four: 🍻🍺 vs 🎓💰

While some issues are being discussed, one isnt HECS DEBT. We can talk about having a beer with the Prime ministerial candidates but not EDUCATION costs and spiralling debt.

While we’re at it. UNEMPLOYED? Has the living allowance been raised? At all, does it match inflation? Is it below the poverty line?

#PubTest / #PrimeMinister / #HexDebt / #HECSDebt / #HECS / #University / #Unemployed / #PovertyLine / #LivingWage / #LukasCoch / AAP <theguardian.com/australia-news>

Do you want to have a drink with? … who bloody cares, there’s real problems being swept under the carpet. source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/from-babysitting-to-keeping-a-secret-the-pm-is-preferred-but-it-is-the-literal-pub-test-where-albo-stands-out
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William Canna-bass

@Brad_Rosenheim Lady, have you tried paying a #LivingWage ?
My guess is that you aren't.
"The American worker doesn’t like labor, they don’t like to do laborious jobs,” Carlson said. “They don’t want to do the hard labor, and that’s what’s frustrating, because we would love to hire U.S. workers, but we can’t get them to show up. We can’t get them to follow through. We can’t get them to finish the season.”

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William Canna-bass

@johnzajac TBF, #Elon88Musk is #Literally firing federal workers by the thousands. This statement is true.

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To your larger point, no Immigrants don't take jobs away from people, it is really the corporations and business owners who fail to pay a #LivingWage and have #HazardousConditions that result in say, undocumented teenagers working the night shift at a Meat packing plant and being injured or Fatally mangled.

apnews.com/article/illegal-chi

AP News · A US company is accused of illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plantsBy HANNAH FINGERHUT
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Peter Riley

The #LivingWage means thriving, not just surviving on #minimumWage
The 2024/25 Living Wage rate is $27.80.

Living Wage Movement #Aotearoa coalition of faith groups, community organizations and unions since 2012.
livingwage.org.nz/

Hear Union Organizer & author Lyndy McIntyre who documented the struggle
3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episo

(Book) Power To Win
otago.ac.nz/press/books/power-

#LaborMovement#Organize#Solidarity
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Strypey

"Minister for Economic Growth Nicola Willis wants to axe one third of 71 rules which include paying the Living Wage in contracts for cleaning, catering and security guard services."

rnz.co.nz/news/national/544637

This tells you exactly what the NatACTs mean by "economic growth"; taking money from the pockets of workers - even during a cost of living crisis - and moving that money into the pockets of business owners. Then pretending they "created" it.

#EconomicGrowth#LivingWage
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Miss Gayle

Sub-living wage jobs should be illegal.

All jobs should come in fixed blocks of either 20 hours or 40 hours per week, chosen by the employee.

Cities, Counties, and States should send a bill each month to every corporation for ever dime of means-tested benefits and services provided to their employees (w/out naming them, of course).

Article: sherwood.news/personal-finance

Multiple jobholder rates are the highest they’ve been since the Great Recession 5.4% of American adults were juggling more than one job last month — the highest share in 15+ years. Hyunsoo Rim, 3/10/25 For more and more US adults in the current economy, it seems like just one job is no longer enough. According to Friday’s job report, the number of multiple jobholders in the US surged to a record 8.9 million in February, the highest figure since data tracking began in 1994. That’s 5.4% of all employed workers — a level last seen in April 2009.
#Employment#Economy#LivingWage
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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁
My final post in this series!

Day 30 of 30 Days of Local Food: @oddduckwandp

I started this list with a favourite and I’m ending with another favourite. I met Jon Rennie a few years ago when he was in a restaurant kitchen, and then he turned up at my then-butcher’s counter. He told me of his plans to open a restaurant with his best friend, Wes Klassen. What they proposed seemed so different to what we have here. Sure, lots of places do local, seasonal, but theirs is about what’s at the peak of readiness, bringing in disparate influences. The bar program also focuses on small producers we may not have heard of (and I’ll say their sober cocktails are fantastic). It’s a respectful workplace where servers don’t have to put up with *those* behaviours, *those* words to work for a tip. Good people. Doing good things. Creating food that’s well above good.



Odd Duck Wine + Provisions: 93 Ontario Street South, Kitchener #BuyLocal #Canada #SMB #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #GuelphFoodies #Waterloofoodies #kitchenerfoodies #CambridgeFoodies #KitchenerWaterlooFoodies #Restaurants #LivingWage #ExploreWaterlooRegion #Food #Mastonom
My most favourite dish of theirs (so far), from when they opened: Asparagus done many ways.
#mastonom
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Miss Gayle

Every dime of exec compensation & shareholder dividends is money that was not paid to the workers that actually generated the revenue.

Refusing to pay living wages is theft from workers, period.

Every city, county, and state should bill each corp monthly for every dime of money spend paying social safety net funds to their workers (without naming names). And revoke their biz license if they don't pay up.

The Icarian @The_Icarian@federated.press Quoting Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie People seem to be confused. When workers are paid less than a living wage, they're forced to rely on taxpayer funded social safety nets to survive. That's not a taxpayer "handout" to workers. That's a taxpayer handout to corporations.
#LivingWage#WorkersRights#Economy
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Miss Gayle

The Great Prosperity: 1947-1979 after the new deal but before Reaganomics took hold

The Great Regression: From 1980 until the present, as neoliberalism successfully stole the value of improved productivity, paying themselves overvalued compensation but paying workers little.

The 80% difference between what you're worth based on productivity and what actual average wages are is the work you're giving away for free.

Violet Madder @violetmadder@kolektiva.social @passenger @Benaresh @voxofgod @magitweeter @HeavenlyPossum There was a neoliberal coup around 1970. The assassinations of various civil rights leaders and JFK mark a fundamental shift in power and policy to a truly cursed paradigm. It took about a decade to restructure the system, then by the 80s we felt the suction in full swing. This de-coupling of productivity from wages shows the rug being pulled out from under us all, and the working class mortally bleeding out.
#LivingWage#Economy#EatTheRich
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James McRitchie, CorpGov.net

This year, investors are increasingly addressing systemic threats to their portfolios. The Shareholder Commons is working to advance two specific #guardrails, one on
corporate overuse of antimicrobials and the other on inadequate wages. They’re also flagging additional votes on systemic issues that threaten diversified investors in Portfolios on the Ballot, a new type of proxy voting guide. Check it out here:
theshareholdercommons.com/potb/

The Shareholder CommonsPortfolios on the Ballot - The Shareholder Commons
#SystemStewardship#LivingWage#AntimicrobialResistance
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

“Capitalism has long excelled at convincing individuals that their struggles—whether they stem from ‘mental health issues,’ financial instability, or general discontent—are personal failings rather than symptoms of a flawed system. This pervasive form of gaslighting distorts the reality of historical and systemic oppression, framing personal hardship as a matter of individual responsibility.”

autside.substack.com/p/capital

The AutSide · Capitalism's Gaslighting: How Systemic Oppression Disguises Itself as Personal FailureBy Jaime Hoerricks, PhD
#Capitalism#LivingWage#Billionaires
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Mayor Gamal Sherif

@scottsantens This article/review has been really helpful.

I'm coming around to the idea (!) that #UBI should be ensured through guarantees of equitable healthcare, housing, transportation, education, retirement, etc., first through a progressive fee structure in which corporations' profits are directed to these social goods.

Second, corporations should be required to provide a #LivingWage so that people can afford to take care of themselves, their families, and their communities.

Third, I'd like to learn more about a guaranteed maximum #income so that the wealthiest earn only their fair share.

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