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:
Esperanza says:
After the pandemic the cost of food, services and housing is skyhigh. It is very important to have a good and fair wages according to the circumstances.
Andrew says:
Fair pay for cost of living
Amelia says:
Everyone deserves to live a dignified existence
Noyel says:
this award rate isn’t enough cover the day to day living expenses
Nicole says:
I believe that wages should be higher, every year the cost of living goes up and our wages don’t match to that, so less and less each year, month or week in our pocket.
Ting says:
We need to be pay fairly for our work. Working in hospitality industry, we are working hard but the pay is bad. We deserve better pay
Cassandra says:
Because everything has gone up in cost -food, mortgages, rent, utilities yet our wages haven’t increased enough to cover these up costs.
Christopher says:
Full time workers should be paid a living wage.
Anthony says:
The “system” in Australia is completely biased towards the rich. The rich create the laws to suit themselves, while the poor slave away for literally nothing to service the greed of the rich and the politicians. The banks then reward them all with opportunities to keep buying investment properties etc, while excluding low income earners with any opportunity to do the same.
Asti says:
I support the petition to rethink and implement minimum wage should be a living because whenever I got salary increase, the property pricing is also sky-rocketing and even to afford coles olive oil is not that cheap anymore. Used to be only 3.50$/500ml. Now is 15$ for 1L.
Feels like no matter how much they increase my wage, I will never be able to buy my own house as the down-payment will also increase by the time I have enough savings.
So definitely, minimum wage should be a living wage.
Kristofer says:
Everyone deserves to be able to live comfortably not pay check to paycheque with the cost of living
Anita says:
Joining the Living Wage Movement is a strong statement which calculates the actual wage needed to fully participate in Australian society. Let’s do this.
Jonathon says:
The security industry award rate needs to increase by 10 percent.
Noralita says:
For the children to have a better future.
Sheena says:
The working poor. We need to fix this.
Christopher says:
Living on the poverty line when three people in my house are full time workers
Cheryl says:
To be able to live
Wesley says:
I want a liveable wage for my grandkids and all workers in future years. Every Australian has the right to live a reasonably comfortable life & the choice to be able to own their own home. So the minimum wage needs a significant increase. I work in hospitality which are some of the lowest paid for the hard and mostly unappreciated work we perform.
Brianna says:
Gotta live .
Deborah says:
I believe in everyone having a decent wage so they can live comfortably.
