#auwu — Public Fediverse posts

Sub/below minimum wage is bloody desperate / stressful as https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/could-you-live-on-jobseeker-payments/106866554

#AUWU #dole #JobSeeker #minimumwage #poverty #unwagedworkers #workfordole #workingpoor

Sub/below minimum wage is bloody desperate / stressful as https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/could-you-live-on-jobseeker-payments/106866554

#AUWU #dole #JobSeeker #minimumwage #poverty #unwagedworkers #workfordole #workingpoor

10 years ago, 18-year old Josh Park-Fing died at his forced labour #WorkfortheDole site in #Toowoomba.
Despite a court finding that Josh's Work for the Dole site did not meet basic safety standards, neither the government nor his for-profit privately owned employment service provider #NEATO were held accountable.
Josh's family weren't even provided normal workers compensation as Josh was technically not an 'employee'.

https://events.humanitix.com/justice-for-josh-10-years-on?

#AUWU #dole #JoshFing #minimumwage #WorkingPoor

10 years ago, 18-year old Josh Park-Fing died at his forced labour #WorkfortheDole site in #Toowoomba.
Despite a court finding that Josh's Work for the Dole site did not meet basic safety standards, neither the government nor his for-profit privately owned employment service provider #NEATO were held accountable.
Josh's family weren't even provided normal workers compensation as Josh was technically not an 'employee'.

https://events.humanitix.com/justice-for-josh-10-years-on?

#AUWU #dole #JoshFing #minimumwage #WorkingPoor

April 17th 2026 Australian Unemployed Workers Union
10 years ago, 18-year old Josh Park-Fing died at his forced labour Work for the Dole site in #Toowoomba

(Note: It’s STILL more than $200 per fortnight below the poverty line.)

https://events.humanitix.com/justice-for-josh-10-years-on?

#AUWU #Dole #joshparkfing

April 17th 2026 Australian Unemployed Workers Union
10 years ago, 18-year old Josh Park-Fing died at his forced labour Work for the Dole site in #Toowoomba

(Note: It’s STILL more than $200 per fortnight below the poverty line.)

https://events.humanitix.com/justice-for-josh-10-years-on?

#AUWU #Dole #joshparkfing

Monday 6:00pm to 6:30pm
By the unemployed for the unemployed. Australian Unemployed Workers Union members cover the latest inequities of the "welfare" system and how we are organising to fight back!

https://www.3cr.org.au/breadline

#3CR #AUWU #BreadLine #communityradio #labourmovement #poverty #unwagedworkers

“Post-Robot Debt” https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/it-error-welfare-payments-australia/

Mutual Obligation (T)error systemic
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/05/australia-mutual-obligation-system-it-system-error

#AUWU #centrelink #Dole
#JobSeeker #YouthAllowance #ParentingPayment #Robodebt #unemployed

RoboDebt
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/24/the-people-who-helped-expose-the-coalitions-crude-and-cruel-robodebt-scheme

Debt-Recovery Scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/centrelink-debt-recovery

#AUWU #Centrelink #DebtRecovery #RoboDebt
#UnWagedWorkers #Unemployed

RoboDebt
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/24/the-people-who-helped-expose-the-coalitions-crude-and-cruel-robodebt-scheme

Debt-Recovery Scheme
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/centrelink-debt-recovery

#AUWU #Centrelink #DebtRecovery #RoboDebt
#UnWagedWorkers #Unemployed

Mondays 6pm
Breadline Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union(AUWU) show by the unemployed, for the unemployed, independent volunteer organisation.

Need advice ? Call the AUWU Advocacy Line on 1800 289 848 (1800 AUWU4U), which operates from 10 AM to 2 PM Monday to Friday.

3CR
https://www.3cr.org.au/breadline

AUWU
https://www.auwu.org.au/your-rights

#3CR #CommunityRadio #AUWU #Breadline #unemployed

@neil

Hello Neil Brown
From So-called Australia

Art by Sam Wallman for Australian Unemployed Workers Union #AUWU
#Dole #Unemployedworkers

@neil

Hello Neil Brown
From So-called Australia

Art by Sam Wallman for Australian Unemployed Workers Union #AUWU
#Dole #Unemployedworkers

(Thanks Sarah Missen)

Industrial disputes & news - 16 April 2025
#NSWDoctors ; St Mary’s Community Health Centre; #Cleanaway ; #KeolisDowner ; #FireRescueVictoria; #Qube ; #RamsayHealthCare ; #WorkfortheDole #AUWU ; #CFMEU Manufacturing Deamalgamation & #IWMD

https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-16-april?

#laborMovement #Organize #Solidarity #unions

(Thanks Sarah Missen)

Industrial disputes & news - 16 April 2025
#NSWDoctors ; St Mary’s Community Health Centre; #Cleanaway ; #KeolisDowner ; #FireRescueVictoria; #Qube ; #RamsayHealthCare ; #WorkfortheDole #AUWU ; #CFMEU Manufacturing Deamalgamation & #IWMD

https://open.substack.com/pub/disputesreport/p/industrial-disputes-and-news-16-april?

#laborMovement #Organize #Solidarity #unions

https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-much-jobseeker-payment-you-can-get?context=51411
#AUWU #dole #jobseeker #unemployedworkers

Raising Jobseeker to $80 per day—in line with the Raise the Rate campaign—and indexing it to keep up with wages would cost $9.5 billion per year.

This a fraction of the cost of superannuation tax concessions ($50 billion per year) or the Capital Gains Tax discount ($15 billion), both of which mainly benefit the richest Australians.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/jobseeker-payments-are-too-low/

#AUWU #breadline #costoflivingcrisis #dole #jobseeker #povertyline #RaiseTheRate #unemployedworkers

Raising Jobseeker to $80 per day—in line with the Raise the Rate campaign—and indexing it to keep up with wages would cost $9.5 billion per year.

This a fraction of the cost of superannuation tax concessions ($50 billion per year) or the Capital Gains Tax discount ($15 billion), both of which mainly benefit the richest Australians.

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/jobseeker-payments-are-too-low/

#AUWU #breadline #costoflivingcrisis #dole #jobseeker #povertyline #RaiseTheRate #unemployedworkers

Abolish Work for the Dole

12pm-1.30pm Monday April 14th

DEWR (Department of Employment and Workplace Relations)
410 LaTrobe Street Melb CBD
Near Flagstaff train station.

Australian Unemployed Worker’s Union
Www.awu.org.au

#AUWU #dole #unemployedworkers #unions

Abolish Work for the Dole

12pm-1.30pm Monday April 14th

DEWR (Department of Employment and Workplace Relations)
410 LaTrobe Street Melb CBD
Near Flagstaff train station.

Australian Unemployed Worker’s Union
Www.awu.org.au

#AUWU #dole #unemployedworkers #unions

This injustice may yet cause unrest ?

Poverty in Australia
(2024 Probably 4 million struggling & many more working poor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia#:~:text=19.3%25%20after%20benefits.-,Henderson%20Inquiry,child%20endowment%20for%20two%20children.

Henderson poverty line = $612.10 a week for a single person…

median weekly rent value across all Australian dwellings is $627 a week…

price of food was up more than 17% for households…

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/12/centrelink-welfare-payments-increasing-youth-studen-carer-details-indexation

#blameCapitalism #poverty #workingpoor #costoflivingcrisis #AUWU

This injustice may yet cause unrest ?

Poverty in Australia
(2024 Probably 4 million struggling & many more working poor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia#:~:text=19.3%25%20after%20benefits.-,Henderson%20Inquiry,child%20endowment%20for%20two%20children.

Henderson poverty line = $612.10 a week for a single person…

median weekly rent value across all Australian dwellings is $627 a week…

price of food was up more than 17% for households…

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/12/centrelink-welfare-payments-increasing-youth-studen-carer-details-indexation

#blameCapitalism #poverty #workingpoor #costoflivingcrisis #AUWU

#AUWU Victoria Co-ordination Jessica Harrison said the high rates of suspension, as previously reported in @guardian Australia, had resulted in unnecessary stress for #jobseekers: #APM suspended payments of 32,220 claimants. That’s over 2,600 per week.

Protestors at the APM office in #Brunswick on Monday
One of the protestors carried a sign that said “show us your payslips” in reference to the provider threatened to hand over payslip details, which would trigger a publicly funded payment.

APM Awarded Worst Job Agency 2024
By Australian Unemployed Workers Union https://auwu.substack.com/p/apm-wins-award-for-worst-job-agency

#APM #AUWU

BREADLINE is presented by the #AUWU Australian #UnemployedWorkers #Union Monday 6-6:30pm

By the unemployed for the unemployed the AUWU members will cover the latest inequities of the "welfare" system and how to organise to fight back!

https://www.auwu.org.au/

#3CR has given space on the airwaves and stood in #solidarity with unemployed workers since 1976.

You can listen live or listen back anytime
https://www.3cr.org.au/breadline

#communityradio #breadline

#FionaKatauskas #Economics #Budget #Surplus #JobSeeker #Unemployment #poverty #AUWU
Australian Unemployed Workers #Union

#FionaKatauskas #Economics #Budget #Surplus #JobSeeker #Unemployment #poverty #AUWU
Australian Unemployed Workers #Union

@AlexanderKingsbury

Employment/ #Unemployment
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/latest-release

#JobSeeker payment rate
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-much-jobseeker-payment-you-can-get?context=51411

Wherever you are whatever you do there is a Union for you.
Australian Unemployed Workers #Union
#AUWU

@AlexanderKingsbury

Employment/ #Unemployment
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/labour-force-australia/latest-release

#JobSeeker payment rate
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/how-much-jobseeker-payment-you-can-get?context=51411

Wherever you are whatever you do there is a Union for you.
Australian Unemployed Workers #Union
#AUWU


In late November 2023 a damning review of the #WorkforceAustralia system said the decades-long full #privatisation of Australia’s employment services system had failed. But the committee shied away from abolishing #mutualobligation

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/21/jobseeker-endured-11-weeks-without-centrelink-payments-but-was-still-forced-to-attend-job-agency-appointments

https://www.auwu.org.au/
#AUWU Australian Unemployed Workers Union #JobSeeker

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/30/australias-broken-employment-services-system-needs-public-provider-parliamentary-review-finds

Did you know that #Centrelink answers less than one out of every four calls?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/30/did-you-know-that-centrelink-answers-less-than-one-out-of-every-four-calls?

Also Debt Repayments https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/30/centrelink-debt-repayments-paused-potentially-unlawful

#AUWU #centreStink #FirstDogOnTheMoon #ServicesAustralia

Did you know that #Centrelink answers less than one out of every four calls?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/30/did-you-know-that-centrelink-answers-less-than-one-out-of-every-four-calls?

Also Debt Repayments https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/30/centrelink-debt-repayments-paused-potentially-unlawful

#AUWU #centreStink #FirstDogOnTheMoon #ServicesAustralia

#mutualobligation system enforced by privatised #jobagencies

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/24/centrelink-jobseeker-payments-suspended-more-than-450000-times-in-three-months

#centrelink #centrestink #jobseeker #ServicesAustralia
Australian Unemployed Workers #Union #AUWU

Australian Unemployed Workers' Union #AUWU

How have your recent interactions with #Centrelink been?
According to our #CentreStink site today: on average, people are currently waiting 90+ minutes on hold to Centrelink.

Share your experience with us here: centrestink.org.au

Australian Unemployed Workers #Union
Meet up bbq/picnic
Sat 28th oct 2023
#CoburgLake
#RaiseTheRate #AUWU

Remember how Centrelink was so deliberately bad in those terrible old Liberal days?

Now it is Labor's days & things are worse. [Gosh no-one knew that would happen did they?]

Thanks to the Australian Unemployed Workers Union, #Centrestink allows you to report your interactions or lack of interactions with them.

https://www.appsheet.com/start/a209b1ad-46f7-46cf-aacd-e9e5bf77a92a#appName=ESPRATS-6036084&page=dashboard&table=CentreStinkDashboard&view=CentreStink+Dashboard

#AUWU

This policy is a joke and blatantly unfair by sheer 'luck of the draw'.

The shutdown will also affect participants with reporting obligations due after January 2 2023.

If that's you, please email us, we are marshalling complaints and media interest.

[email protected]

Merry Xmas, Tony Burke

#MutualObligations #AUWU #WorkForceAustralia #auspol

🚨 #MutualObligations are SUSPENDED for all programs from today (19/12/22) until 2/1/2023.

Until 2/1/2023 you are not required to engage with your provider, or undertake any activities.

The #AUWU hotline will shut during this period and reopen 3/1/2023.

Further, any 'mutual' obligations you have due should have their due date suspended by 14 days. For example, if you had a job search due on 6/1/2023 that should now be due 20/1/2023.

Please get in touch with [email protected] if that hasn't happened.

#auspol