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:
Jean Bosco says:
This is very important as described in the general message. People on the low wages deserve better to boost the quality of life in this world with soaring costs.
Brenda says:
Because no one should have to live like this. I cry almost every pay day after paying the essentials and then realising I have next to nothing left and still have to buy groceries. How do you budget when you take drastic measures with utilities and shop according to the best discounts and still end up in the minus?
Tammy says:
No one is Australia should struggle to put food on the table, have electricity or enough fuel to run cars. We are supposed to be the lucky country.
Patricia says:
I am in my early sixties and still need to work to survive as the cost of living is an ongoing problem
Ninos says:
Full agreement with the paying workers a living wage that you mentioned.
Krystal says:
Everyone needs a wage to match the cost of living and not struggle from week to week. Some even have to work 2 jobs to earn enough to live. We need more balance with work and life outside of work and not at the expense of struggling to make that happen because you don’t earn enough working a full week and full shift to make ends meet.
Ladenia says:
Because cost of living on Thursday Island and Torres strait is very high. Some family have to live pay day to pay day, so that they can have food and making sure they bills are paid for in time. Housing and water is very expensive and doing our shopping here on Thursday island is very expensive. $100 wouldn’t get every thing you need and plus not forgetting the fuel the prices . It’s ridiculous
Karen says:
I live by myself, and I am currently fixing my parents’ house for me to live in and I am struggling to find enough money to replace things I need to fix.
David says:
I think it’s disgraceful that CEOs can earn billions and yet this “Lucky Country” can’t pay a decent wage. 60% of the average wage? What a joke, it should be 80 to 90%.
Houssein says:
Greetings to you
I have been working in the cleaning field for ten years. What do I have in my pocket? Nothing.
I work full time, my salary is $550 for room rent. I pay $110 for my mobile phone and $50 for my vision medication. $250 for food and drink per week. I pay $50 per week for petrol.
And pay the bank $400 per month
My salary for two weeks is $2,000.
I hope salaries improve
Thank you
Mohd Syuffian says:
Living costs are rising and most companies are making money, but this is not reflected in our salary.
Rajinder says:
I am a full time employee but everything is out of reach. I dont know how to survive.
Dianne says:
Everyone doing it tough one way or enough
John says:
Because it’s getting so hard to live on the pay we are getting now with the cost of living at the moment
Rachel says:
Our pay should be based on what you need to live comfortably. Not a struggle life.
Emma says:
Because it simply not fair to pay people below what they deserve given the fact that things are so expensive at the moment. It’s heartbreaking the way this country is going
Michael says:
The only way we get what we want if we all reunite as a team and stand strong . Everyone struggling with all this bullshit cost of living and making life hard on all of us. We’ve all got mouths to feed and support. So this pay rise will help us even if just a bit still something. Better then nothing
Uddab prasad says:
Hard to survive with the award wages.
GRAHAM says:
No worker and their family should be on a minimum wage as it’s just too hard to make ends meet.
The price of groceries and rent or mortgage payments is astronomical for everyone let alone those on a minimum wage.
Shelley says:
Because all Australians deserve to be paid at a rate that allows them to live comfortably. With the rise in cost of living there are far too many working Australians that are unable to afford the daily necessities, and this is not good enough.
