5 years ago
EVERYTHING IS GOING UP EXCEPT FOR WAGES
BRENDAN O’CONNOR MP
Under the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government wages continue to stagnate and Australians struggle to keep up with living costs.
The latest release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) wage price index shows that private sector wages growth remains very weak, growing by 0.6 per cent in the quarter and 2.3 per cent over the year.
With overall wages growth at 2.3 per cent, real wages continue to stagnate and Australian workers are feeling the pinch.
As Treasurer and now Prime Minister Scott Morrison has presided over the lowest wages growth since records began, and yet he wants to further cut the wages of hard working Australians by cutting their penalty rates.
This Government doesn’t have a single policy to grow wages and reduce inequality.
Instead, they support cuts to wages through slashing penalty rates, argue against increasing the minimum wage, and deny there is an issue with insecure work.
Australians deserve a pay rise – and they aren’t getting one under Scott Morrison and his Liberals.
The latest release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) wage price index shows that private sector wages growth remains very weak, growing by 0.6 per cent in the quarter and 2.3 per cent over the year.
With overall wages growth at 2.3 per cent, real wages continue to stagnate and Australian workers are feeling the pinch.
As Treasurer and now Prime Minister Scott Morrison has presided over the lowest wages growth since records began, and yet he wants to further cut the wages of hard working Australians by cutting their penalty rates.
This Government doesn’t have a single policy to grow wages and reduce inequality.
Instead, they support cuts to wages through slashing penalty rates, argue against increasing the minimum wage, and deny there is an issue with insecure work.
Australians deserve a pay rise – and they aren’t getting one under Scott Morrison and his Liberals.