WE DEMAND:
A Living Wage For Every Worker
TO: SENATOR MURRAY WATT, MINISTER FOR EMPLOYMENT & WORKPLACE RELATIONS.
Right now, our minimum wage is an express train to working poverty, and many award pay rates aren’t much better.
We call on the Australian Government to create new rules to ensure the minimum wage is a living wage.
We believe that every worker on the minimum wage should earn enough to properly support a family and have a dignified life.
Rethink the purpose of the minimum wage. It shouldn’t be there just to stop you hitting rock bottom – it should create a strong foundation so that every worker can earn a living wage and properly support a family.
A plan to fight working poverty. The Federal Government must build a plan to rebuild the living standards of people on the minimum wage and award wages.
Set a hard target to lift up Australia’s minimum wage. The minimum wage should be no less than 60% of what people on middle incomes are earning and this target should increase over time.
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WHY IT’S IMPORTANT:
Australia’s minimum wage system is broken. Too many Australians on minimum and award wages just don’t earn enough to meet our basic needs, including paying for ever-increasing housing costs, groceries and utility bills. We should be able to meet these basic needs and still be able to afford a decent quality of life.
A major gap between workers on the minimum and those on middle incomes has emerged. Meanwhile, corporate profits are booming and CEOs are paying themselves mega-salaries and eye-watering bonuses as they try to hold down our wages. This is not the Australia we want.
But we can start to turn this around by ensuring that the minimum wage is a living wage.
We know that when we raise wages at the bottom, everyone benefits. By raising the floor we help workers everywhere push for more. A rising tide lifts all boats.
OUR MINIMUM WAGE IS BROKEN, BECAUSE:
David says:
Earning a liveable wage has so many positives. People would be more motivated and want to work. They would be more productive. They would have more dignity. There would be less crime.
Yulia says:
Low pay no way
Ben says:
If we don’t do anything, they’ll walk all over us. I couldn’t be prouder to see fellow workers standing up for themselves
Andre says:
Every person that tries to impove and/or contribute to the lives of those around them should be able to live a dignified life. I’m sick and tired of living in a world where the economy treats society as an extension of itself rather than the way it should be.
The economy is an extension of society!
Mawata says:
Be able to work and spend time with my family, I don’t want to be working 7 days a week to cover my living expenses.
Dean says:
Cost of living is rising items that used to be basic items/products are now becoming “luxury items”
Damir says:
We need a fairer society with the less discrepancy in pay.
Andrew says:
No polite way to put it. Sick society we are living in with such huge disparity between the haves and have nots. Sick of the wealthy avin it all.
It’s important, the right and moral thing to do. There’s a war raging and the poorest of the population are being destroyed (turned into slaves).
Cheryl says:
Because I live from pay to pay.. it’s not enough with the cost of living going up..
Leonie says:
It’s important to me as I have grandkids and I need to ensure that they are paid a living wage. So that they can afford a home and be able to look after their children. This is very important for growth in Australia. We need to be able to afford a family.
We need to be able to afford the basics, house, food, clothes, school etc
Without these there is no future.
Michelle says:
We all should be able to pay our bills and have enough over to enjoy life .
Tricia says:
I’m sick of living below the poverty line
Kerry says:
No one in Australia should be working full-time and need another job to cover the basic cost of living.
Gustavo says:
This is very important since I need a fair payment to be able to cover the cost of living that is increasing more and more.
Cathie says:
The price of everything is incredibly high we can’t afford to buy essentials but shareholders and corporations seem to be making huge profits. It just doesn’t make any sense. This needs to be fixed!!
Ahmad says:
To be a father, husband and a man who can provide a decent life for his family.
Adrien says:
You shouldn’t have to work yourself to death just to live the bare minimum in life. I have friends who have worked multiple jobs to get where they need to be, and that isn’t right.
Tony says:
I agree the system is broken a minimum wage should cover everything 25 years ago wages we re similar yet housing, groceries and petrol was a lot cheaper. About time people fight back. Australia is going backwards.
Angelina says:
Don’t want to live in poverty. Our wages are still not enough to meet our needs eg. like Rent, grocery, fuel, and family holidays etc. Everything going up on the cost-of-living. We’re working pay cheque to pay cheque.
Sahara says:
It’s important because I want pay to increase with the inflation so that we can still be able to afford daily needs without struggling
