Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
2026
Twenty-year-old Ben Walker worked at a Woolworths in Sale for 4 years.
"I have a car, I pay board at home, I've got a motorbike as well. I'm paying adult fuel with still a child's wage,"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-09/millions-of-young-people-could-get-massive-pay-boost-in-totemic/106101186
2024
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-06/unions-endorse-end-to-junior-wages/103945336
2020
https://raffwu.org.au/campaigns/industry/poverty-wages/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/03/todays-hobos/
The Two Bums
The bum on the rods is hunted down as an enemy of mankind
The other is driven around to his club, is feted, wined and dined
And they who curse the bum on the rods as the essence of all that's bad
Will greet the other with a willing smile and extend a hand so glad
-George Milburn the Hobos Hornbook (1930) https://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1930s/1930_the_hobos_hornbook__george_milburn_(HC)/index.htm
#hobos #homeless #housingcrisis #landlords #rent #workingpoor
In America today, millions of people are just one medical bill, one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from becoming homeless.
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US out in paperback on March 3, 2026
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871/there-is-no-place-for-us-by-brian-goldstone/
March of The Jobless Corps - Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird album "Lost Causes"
www.paintedbird.net
( Original Yiddish song by Mordechai Gebirtig, written ca. 1930 in Krakow.
English by Daniel Kahn, 2009. Arrangement by Michael Winograd/Jake Shulman-Ment
instrumental, "Nifty's Freylakh" by Naftule Brandwein )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KFVVKFxr60&list=RD6KFVVKFxr60&start_radio=1
What was it I said about #GreasyGavinNewsom? In a word, he's PURE TRASH!
#IHIPNews: #GavinNewsom WALKS BACK His Attack on #ICE While NEW Reports of MURDERS Surface?!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMRU0bLmQxc&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D
My mum's ex-pat friends talk abt this 'man' like the #rightwing SCUM he is!
A liar, a sleazebag, a trashy rich kid who has a vicious HATRED for the poor and the #unhoused (just lime Mayor #DanLurie) He hates the #workingpoor, and the #workingclass.
He ...is...shit!
#ShitMyMumSays, in a text about what her friend said:
'The only reason he pretends to like cis gay men is because in the 2000s the cable-sweater gay men were attracted to his cringe Patrick Bateman looks and voted for him!'
Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
“ … (Coroner) recommend NSW Police commissioner liaise with the anti-slavery commissioner with mandatory modern slavery training for officers operating in "high risk areas"
#exploitation #migrantworkers #minimumwage #wageslavery #wagetheft #workingpoor
In 2026, more workers will live in a state with at least a local $15 minimum wage than Federal $7.25 minimum wage
8.3 million workers benefit
https://www.epi.org/blog/over-8-3-million-workers-will-benefit-from-minimum-wage-increases-on-january-1-nineteen-states-will-raise-their-minimum-wages-heres-where/
Three key takeaways: More than 8.3 million workers will get a raise starting January 1 as 19 states raise their minimum wages. For the first time, there will be more workers in states with a $15 or greater minimum wage than in states with the federal minimum of $7.25. Minimum wage increases are critical for improving affordability. State and federal policymakers should ensure wage floors meet the needs of all workers. Figure A
@Adventurer56 - Don’t Major in Minor Things!
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