Labor announces push to increase minimum wage

Australian workers could soon receive pay rises with Labor asking the Fair Work Commission for an real wage increase for minimum wage workers.

Almost half of all Australian workers could see their wages increase if the FWC decides to increase the minimum wage, with even non-minimum wage workers benefited indirectly.

This is how you address the cost of living: by increasing wages.

You know what makes the cost of living worse? Cutting back workers' rights and protections, suppressing wage growth. Don't risk your wages and rights with a Dutton Coalition government.

Leigh Shears, Hunter Workers Secretary:

"Hunter workers are doing it tough due to a decade of stagnant wage growth under the Coalition, compounded by international inflationary pressures, which have eroded wages.

The only solution to the cost of living crisis is increasing wages. 

Raising minimum and award wages is the single most effective and immediate way to achieve this.

Labor’s push to raise the minimum wage above inflation will result in pay rises, both directly and indirectly, for nearly half of all Aussie workers.

This initiative builds on Labor’s efforts over the last three years to strengthen workers' rights and bargaining power, driving wage growth over time.

Yet Peter Dutton plans to repeal these rights if elected, returning us to the same conditions that suppressed wage growth under the Coalition."

Anthony Albanese taking a selfie with workers