Word: waging
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...Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will be revolutionized. In Canberra and beyond, Howard and his ministers have been extolling the proposed new system's fairness, choice and protections - soothing words that seek to hide the darker side of a deregulated labor market and that obscure the true scale of the risks and opportunities...
...tough they expect to be propped up by institutional benevolence. Of course, there's a powerful argument for sticking with an adaptable system that has served Australia so well - and that has evolved a long way since Justice Higgins' 1907 Harvester judgment on the basic needs, and appropriate minimum wage, of an unskilled male laborer. Nor does the case for radical change seem irresistible when Australia's recent history is compared with that of deregulated New Zealand and the U.S. Why would Australians opt for the low wages of the Kiwis and America's social dislocation and inequality when their...
...response to your editorial “Don’t Increase the ‘Living Wage’” (Oct. 13), I’d like to propose a modest alternative. The wage labor system itself (i.e., capitalism) should be abolished, and everyone guaranteed an ample livelihood, free from material anxiety, with a drastically reduced working week in a democratically-run workplace, where all managers would be elected and recallable. Yes, friends, I’m talking about the ‘s’ word: socialism...
Your editorial opposing increases in the living wage exposes a dangerously flawed logic buttressed by internal inconsistencies. I don’t know much about the living costs in Boston and Cambridge, so I have no opinion on what the living wage should be. But your editorial repeatedly conflates arguments against a specific living wage with arguments against the very concept of a living wage. Perhaps $20 per hour is the right living wage rate, perhaps it is wrong, but if Harvard’s janitors are indeed members of the University community, they must be accorded a wage that...
...state that Harvard must not pay more than “what is fair,” but aside from the free market, you provide no other standard of fairness. Does The Crimson Staff believe that all wages set by the free market are inherently fair? Your editorial itself suggests that you do not, given that you seem supportive of the janitors’ current wage rate of $13.50, which was itself achieved in part through a living-wage campaign at Harvard...