Recently the Australian UNITE union posted a short but informative article on the effects of youth wages. Click here to read it.

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This is the full transcript of an interview with Sandra Dann (Director of Working Women’s Centre) that appeared in The Antidote.

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An interview done by Mike Treen of UNITE NZ for MediaStrike, a snippet of this appears in the article about UNITE in issue 001 of The Antidote

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The zine is about 4 and a half seconds away from being mailed to the printers so we should have bout 3000 copies in a couple weeks. Till then here’s the PDF for reading (spreads) and here’s the PDF for printing (no spreads) if you’re so inclined. We’ll post a list of places you can pick up hard copies from when we know where they’ll be.

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The National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC) has released this document outlining how the Welfare to Work legislation is going to effect people.

http://www.naclc.org.au/docs/NACLC_welfarework.pdf

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“Pick the spin” adapted excerpts from Speakers Notes produced by the Southern Adelaide Workers Defence Committee.

1. “Employees on AWA’s earn, on average 13% more than those on collective agreements and 100% more than those on awards” – Gov. (taxpayer funded) ads

100 % more! Seem to good to be true? It is. These figures can only be achieved if you take into account executives and managers (who were always doing better than awards and on individually negotiated contracts and often earn 6 figure sums). The ABS recently reported on earnings from ordinary workers, showing that those on AWA’s earn 2% less than per hour than workers on union negotiated contracts. However the real damage to wages comes to those employed as casuals (earning 15% less) and part-time (25% less!).

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