Essential transport workers face a real wage cut
Workers keeping NSW roads safe and functioning are too important to be allowed to strike - but not important enough to warrant a decent pay rise.
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The way we work, how work is changing, how it used to be and what it might look like in the future.
It’s a discussion about the conditions in which we work and the demands of a job. It’s talking about how it can be the best thing in our lives and also the worst.
Work can give us meaning and satisfaction, it can be the most challenging thing we’ve ever done and the most soul destroying days of our lives. And that can all be in the same week!
Above all, we want to talk about work in a way that helps make work better for everyone who listens. So, clock on to “On the Job” and take a listen back through the archives.
Workers keeping NSW roads safe and functioning are too important to be allowed to strike - but not important enough to warrant a decent pay rise.
The lines snaking along the roads outside Foodbank’s warehouses in Dandenong and Epping on Melbourne’s suburban edge say more than any politician or pundit could about the cost-of-living crisis working people are facing.
On this week's podcast, we pay a visit to one of our favourite friends of the pod.
The Wages and Ages: Mapping the Gender Pay Gap by Age data report shows that men out earn women across every generation.
The net has started to close on big-tech companies who have denied their workers’ rights with sophisticated sham contracting, following a landmark workers compensation decision in Sydney. Xiaojun Chen died while delivering food for the Tech platform Hungry Panda. He has been recognised as an employee of the company under New South Wales workers’ compensation scheme.
Australia's industry super funds have become one of the country's biggest and most powerful forces in determining investment decisions and the shape and nature of our economy.