MEDIA RELEASE | UnitingCare Australia welcomes pay rise at last

UnitingCare Australia was the first national aged care body to publicly support a 25% pay rise for workers in March 2022.

We boldly costed the ask and put our support behind our workforce. We firmly believe that all Australians should be afforded the opportunity to age to their full potential.

Today’s significant announcement is all about the people – older people and their families, workers providing care, and the families who rely on those workers.

This overdue pay rise will go a long way toward dealing with the cost-of-living crisis the lowest paid workers are currently facing.

Read our full media release here: https://bit.ly/42k3Eby

#agedcare #careaboutagedcare #costoflivingcrisis #essentialworkers #auspol

With two more stores joining a wave of union elections, shoppers should know the fan-favorite grocery chain is not as progressive as its image.
@zacwhidby @TraderJoesUnite #Unions #Labor #Organizing #EssentialWorkers
https://progressive.org/latest/when-we-organized-at-my-trader-joes-whidby-260423/

With two more stores joining a wave of union elections, shoppers should know the fan-favorite grocery chain is not as progressive as its image.
@zacwhidby @TraderJoesUnite #Unions #Labor #Organizing #EssentialWorkers
https://progressive.org/latest/when-we-organized-at-my-trader-joes-whidby-260423/

#kissantai #caturday

hotel resident cat 😻 #essentialworkers

I was temporarily reassigned to a #NycDoe #REC for a week and a half, where we tried to provide educational help and daycare for kids whose parents were #EssentialWorkers and #FrontlineWorkers. It’s kind of a miracle I didn’t catch #COVID, since we still didn’t have masks. There were few enough cases that it wasn’t a concern, yet, that the virus could have been lurking in the building at the time.

Some say that #photography is as hard as #modeling #essentialworkers

Full support!
These are the essential workers we all so happily cheered for. These are the people who deliver your stuff for you.

These people are not getting a livable wage, haven't been getting one in a long long time. Many have to collect wellfare to get by, so effectively we all pay their income gap that the owners should pay.

Meanwhile all these chains made record profits. And elevated prices (making inflation worse).
https://yle.fi/a/74-20017088
#strike #EssentialWorkers #finland #lakko

"Superheroes by definition don't need protections (..) they just rise above the fray, and so in naming people heroes I think we sort of undermined the necessity to really do right by them."

- #JamieMcCallum, author of "#Essential: How the #Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for #WorkerJustice"

#Covid19 #WorkplaceHealth #WorkplaceSafety #SocialMurder #WorkersRights #EssentialWorkers #Labour #LabourStruggles #books #Covid19USA #classism

#MajorityFM
#MajorityReport

https://youtu.be/0853sR8Uxx4?t=1302

"Superheroes by definition don't need protections (..) they just rise above the fray, and so in naming people heroes I think we sort of undermined the necessity to really do right by them."

- #Jamie McCallum, author of "#Essential: How the #Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for #WorkerJustice"

#Covid19 #SocialMurder #WorkplaceHealth #WorkplaceSafety #WorkersRights #EssentialWorkers #Labour #LabourStruggles #books #Covid19USA

#MajorityFm
#MajorityReport

https://youtu.be/0853sR8Uxx4?t=1302

UFCW Grocery store workers met with to discuss the negative impacts of the Kroger/Albertsons merger yesterday in Washington DC. #EssentialWorkers united!

I find it more than mildly infuriating to watch essential workers get pressured from all sides yet again.

115,000: The total number of workers affected by the negotiations, who won’t get additional sick leave if the deal is forced upon them by Congress

1: The number of days of sick leave allotted to rail workers in the tentative agreement, up from the current zero

From Quartz: https://qz.com/proud-pro-labor-president-biden-calls-on-congress-to-1849829821

#WorkersRights #RailStrikes #EssentialWorkers

We are making a difference! Join our heartfelt cause in support of Alberta Disability Workers #ableg #yyc #yeg #DisabilityRights #disabilityawareness #essentialworkers

https://www.change.org/p/ucp-alberta-government-essential-but-forgotten-campaign

#liberalism #essentialworkers