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:
Wayne says:
Solidarity!
Pema says:
We work hard to earn a living, but the cost of living in Australia is extremely high, including house rent, bills, university fees, and daily expenses. It would be helpful if our employer could at least provide housing support.
Nouman says:
We all need to get paid the right amount
Paul says:
Everyone who works should earn enough money to live well & pay the bills
Rochell says:
Its important for me and for everybody to sustain even our basic needs. We all need a quality of life..
Thomas says:
We are underpaid
Linda says:
To get what we want fairly, we needs to be together, to become a strong and powerful union… I am in the workforce and I know that our union has been awesome and getting stronger too for their members. Thank you so much 😊😊
Kim says:
I’m paid the bare minimum wage for a management position and surprisingly it’s the same wage as a retail assistant who works less hours and doesn’t have the responsibility. Always trying to negotiate a better wage for all but it falls on deaf ears. It’s expensive just to go to and from work due to the lack of public transport. I spend up to $300 per fortnight in parking, fuel and tolls.
Doesn’t leave much in your pay.
Trying to find other work that pays better but there isn’t much around.
Helen says:
I am a single mum and a teacher , the job is so demanding and important yet the pay is rubbish !!!
Kullan says:
Because no-one who is working (especially those on full time hours) should be in poverty, no matter the job
Julie gai says:
We deserve more money
Bal Krishna says:
Hello, I feel this petition is important for all hardworking people out there. Most of us working extra hours and even don’t knowing whether we getting fair pay or not. In additional, I am also not sure about my contract is providing me fair pay rates or hours. It is our right to get paid a fair rate for whatever hours we are doing.
Thank you
Deborah says:
Because I am living on my own and want to be able to pay my rent etc and also enjoy myself
Sayed says:
We need better wages
Manjit says:
Need pay increase.
Karyn says:
Our rate of pay is disappointing, we are in 2024. t’s not even enough to survive on, it’s impossible to even to try and bank, the cost of rent groceries are unbelievable something needs to be done to fix it
Darren says:
We want to be a fair and decent country and we never intended for the Minimum Wage to be a Poverty Wage. It has to be the minimum to be healthy, to participate, to get educated and THRIVE – not just SURVIVE.
Jess says:
What’s the point of having a min wage if it doesn’t cover basic expenses? The system is no longer fit for purpose – let’s fix it!
Zarah says:
The minimum wage has not been a safety net for workers for a long time. It holds us back because no one can keep up with rising costs. The minimum wage is not a living wage, and employers continue to get away with paying minimum wage – Ie. the legal bare minimum and workers face the consequence of working for a wage that barely covers essential living costs, meanwhile this undermines workers skills, experience and jobs and causes immense social and economic stress.
Anthony says:
The cost of living is out of control
