Fair Work abolishes junior pay rates, with half a million young Australians to be paid more

Union celebrates ‘landmark decision’ that will mean adults aged 20 or younger are no longer paid less

#FairWork #Australia #AusPol #Union #unions #unionstrong

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/31/fair-work-abolishes-junior-pay-rates-w?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

There was a story told about the internet and music: the old industry was gatekept and extractive, pirates were everywhere, stealing your revenue. Streaming would protect your work, democratise distribution and let artists connect directly with audiences. It was a persuasive story. It also turned out to be considerably more useful to the platforms than to the artists.

What actually happened was that the infrastructure of music distribution was rebuilt around a different extraction model — one that kept artists as necessary inputs while moving the profits elsewhere. And it's still owned by gatekeepers pirates… they've just gone legit…

I've been thinking about this for the better part of a decade, which is part of what led me to co-found The Pack. Not because nostalgia is a viable strategy, but because I think the original premise — that artists deserve to own their distribution infrastructure and not be owned by labels and billionaire tech bros - was right and remains achievable. We're crowdfunding to do it. Can you help?

https://crowdfunding.startsomegood.com/thepackmusiccoop #CreativeEconomy #FairWork #CooperativeValues #MusicIndustry

Heute tagt die Bürgerschaft. Unsere wichtigsten Themen auf der Tagesordnung:

❤️‍🩹 Solidarität und Hilfe für #Rojava!
🧑‍💻 Rechte durchsetzen mit dem #FairWork-Portal!
🎨 #Grundeinkommen-Test für Künstler*innen!

Ab 13:30 live: https://www.hamburgische-buergerschaft.de/aktuelles/buergerschaft-live

Study exposes Gaps in German Companies’ Duty of Care w. regard to outsourcing online work to GIG workers in the socalled "Global South": By designing logos, labeling #AI training data, programming software, cloud workers in the Global South keep digital business models running. The study sheds light on why their work has hardly been considered part of supply chains until now. Checking #FairWork ratings (https://fair.work/en/ratings/cloudwork/ ) are good first step #GigEconomy

More: https://www.bmz-digital.global/en/news/invisible-work-cloudwork-study-duty-of-care/

We want to help build fair work in social care, with better pay, more job security, and improved working conditions. Our new #PathwaysToProgress project has launched a survey for #socialcare workers in #Scotland. Please fill it in and share!

#SocialCare #PathwaysToProgress #Scotland #FairWork #LivingWage

https://www.pathwaystoprogress.uk/get-involved