Tim Gooden celebrates聽those workers who won the 8-hour working day and proposes five campaigns聽the union movement聽must fight for today.
8-hour day
Greens leader Richard Di Natale raised the prospect of a 鈥渇our-day work week or a six-hour day鈥 as part of an on March 15.
This is a good discussion to be having in a country where people work among the longest hours in the world and where productivity growth has massively outstripped wage growth in recent decades.
Di Natale also flagged the possibility of a Universal Basic Income 鈥 which he described as a 鈥済uaranteed adequate income鈥.