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Remember when workers were 'essential'?
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My peak body, the Australian Computer Society is advocating that we should be happy with the wages earned in the late 1990's, so clearly we're not essential.
Source: https://ia.acs.org.au/content/ia/article/2023/it-teams--salaries--rebalancing--after-pandemic.html
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-Australian Computer Society
How big is your paycheck? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Time to join your union instead. Peak bodies don't really exist to fight for workers' wellbeing.
https://www.professionalsaustralia.org.au/
Disclaimer that the tech sector is rather under-unionised