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:
Rodney says:
because everyone deserves to earn enough to feed and look after their families
John says:
The minimum wage should be a living wage.
Tracy says:
I signed because I had to move out of my house of 25 years due to unable to pay the mortgage, live and eat. I have moved in with a family friend and rented my house, I would have never thought that I would be in this situation. I am an Education Assistant but I teach and add to students lives everyday. Rain hail and shine we are there to support our schools, teachers and students just be fair and pay for these hard working people.
David says:
I can’t afford to feed my family
Max says:
As a retired baby boomer who has enjoyed the benefits of award wages, i believe that all persons should enjoy what I had when I was working.
Sue says:
because it gets increasingly difficult to exist on the current living wage and impossible to find rentals that I can afford
Shona says:
I work 36 hr each week and am barely surviving. My award rate is above the minimum wage but not by much. I can’t see how people survive on minimum wage.
Natasa says:
I work so many hours per week and sometimes long shifts to get paid minimal award wage and then pay high taxes on top of this. Take home pay does not meet the minimum living requirements to get by.
We deserve better in the hospitality industry.
Lillian says:
Workers need to be paid properly. Bosses give themselves pay rises
Workers seem to have to beg.
Tracey says:
Because life is hard enough for people right now. Our wages should reflect what we have to pay to live. In Australia NO ONE should be homeless and hungry! Especially when they are working!
Suzanne says:
Easy, cannot even save money let alone buy something special. The cost of our basic necessities are double or even tripled. We are not living we are just wondering what is the next item or bill I have to for go….
Magdalena says:
The living cost is through the roof..
Shaun says:
I want to be a part of setting the standard for hard working Australians and their families
Jade-Allissa says:
Because I feel our jobs are important within the education system and we deserve to be heard as well
Mark says:
I don’t believe that anyone who is slaving their ass off making others richer should be forced to live in any form of poverty
Komal says:
With high and rising living costs even working full time is not getting enough plus rent price is skyrocketing
Jade-Allissa says:
Because as a current teacher aide within this high school I want to make sure I have the security behind me to remain in this position for 2025
Phan says:
I need more money to support my newborn daughter
Philip says:
I want to be able to live without the burden of not having enough money.
Christine says:
I am working as an early learning educator, worked as assistant then qualified educator and now assistant manager and only paid by the award and because I have an Advanced Diploma in community sector management I am just paid over 33 dollars an hour which is ridiculous especially with an Advanced Diploma.
