Australia: "Our society has dealt with significant advances in technology and productivity before and the lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages, or the social contract will break" - eviltoast
AI: Retail union vows to push for wage increases - Ragtrader
www.ragtrader.com.au
"The lesson is that those gains must be reflected in wages or the social contract will break."
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Imagine living in a society where unions aren’t reviled… America is so thoroughly broken societally.

    • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      The union in this article though (SDA) is one of the worst in Australia. A newer independent union (RAFFWU) campaigning and unionising in the same sector was able to expose that this more established union had been signing off on terrible bargaining agreements leaving workers missing out on tens of millions (or possibly hundreds of millions, I can’t remember) in lost wages among other things.