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First win for IWW Claimants' Union! - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

The Claimants' Union of the Industrial Workers of the World has won our first fight! An IWW member recently approached the union about her Council Tax Support. Plymouth City Council had decided the extra Universal Credit she gets due to her disability counted as “income”, meaning she'd be charged more than £400 extra in council tax every year.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Peter Riley Jun 5, 2025

https://iww.org.uk/news/pride-in-our-class-new-iww-claimants-union/

#ClaimantsUnion #iww #Labormovement #organize #solidarity #unemployedworkers #unions #unwaged

Pride in our Class: New IWW Claimants’ Union. - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Prompted by the state’s relentless assault on the poor, members of the IWW have formed a Claimants’ Union, open to all workers wholly or partially dependant on benefits, in or out of work. This will include pensioners, trainees, unemployed, disabled,…

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

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Peter Riley Apr 28, 2025

@neil

Hello Neil Brown
From So-called Australia

Art by Sam Wallman for Australian Unemployed Workers Union #AUWU
#Dole #Unemployedworkers

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Peter Riley Apr 13, 2025

https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-much-jobseeker-payment-you-can-get?context=51411
#AUWU #dole #jobseeker #unemployedworkers

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Peter Riley Apr 13, 2025

Raising Jobseeker to $80 per day—in line with the Raise the Rate campaign—and indexing it to keep up with wages would cost $9.5 billion per year.

This a fraction of the cost of superannuation tax concessions ($50 billion per year) or the Capital Gains Tax discount ($15 billion), both of which mainly benefit the richest Australians.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/jobseeker-payments-are-too-low/

#AUWU #breadline #costoflivingcrisis #dole #jobseeker #povertyline #RaiseTheRate #unemployedworkers

Jobseeker payments are too low

No-one in Australia should have to live on $56 a day. The current Jobseeker payment is inadequate by every metric, and the majority of families that rely on it live below the poverty line.

The Australia Institute

Peter Riley Apr 13, 2025

Abolish Work for the Dole

12pm-1.30pm Monday April 14th

DEWR (Department of Employment and Workplace Relations)
410 LaTrobe Street Melb CBD
Near Flagstaff train station.

Australian Unemployed Worker’s Union
Www.awu.org.au

#AUWU #dole #unemployedworkers #unions

Edward Curtis Aug 20, 2024

Unemployed Workers rally

#UnemployedWorkers #moe_tahurangi #Kōtuia #Demonstrations #Banners #mothers #children #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #silver #gelatinsilverprints #worksofart #Parliamentbuildings #tradeunions #Wellington

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/36782717/source

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Peter Riley Jun 9, 2024

10th June 2024 “Member of the Order of Australia (AM)”
Sarina, dressed in designer funk wear, meanders through the extravagant but ultimately aimless alleyways of the wealthy yet pointless. With each step, she peels off essential life lessons, like “I’m the jobs Queen; Get a job!”

April 2024
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/rich-lister-sarina-russo-roasted-online-after-telling-aussies-to-get-a-job/news-story/cefc7866a8bd7bf49ea15162564017f8

2022
https://michaelwest.com.au/sarina-russo-1000x-return-on-her-liberal-party-donation/

July 2021
https://michaelwest.com.au/jobactive-investigation-pandemic-boom-for-privatised-job-agencies-not-great-for-job-seekers/

2019
https://unemployedworkersunion.com/we-just-gave-sarina-russo-with-golden-demerit-award/

https://punishmentforprofit.org/tag/russo/

#Capitalism #UnemployedWorkers #union #unwaged