ACTU chief Sally McManus says rise is essential to keep lowest-paid workers’ ‘heads above water’
Good morning and welcome to our rolling coverage of the final day of a huge sitting fortnight in the federal parliament. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll bring you some of the moving stories overnight before Amy Remeikis fires up again.
Our top story this morning is a call by trade unions for a pay rise of 7% for the lowest-paid workers, a raise in the national minimum wage of $1.50 an hour to keep pace with inflation. Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus said the rise was “essential” to help workers “keep their heads above water”. Our economics commentator Greg Jericho says the doomsayers are wrong: the sky won’t fall in if people get a decent pay rise.
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