254 - Ben Schneiders

Ben Schneiders is an award-winning investigate journalist at The Age and author of the new book, Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality. Over the past eight years, Ben's reporting has exposed the scourge of wage theft and worker exploitation in Australian hospitality, fast food, retail and agriculture. In Hard Labour, Ben summarises just how widespread and serious this problem is in Australian capitalism today, and lays out exactly what's been happening over the past 50 years that's seen workers' power dwindle so much. This was a great conversation, in which Ben and I discussed the enraging specifics of the wage theft cases, why the SDA sucks, how much we should blame the ALP for all this and where we might find some hope in the future for Australian workers. Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out November 30th – pre-order it now I'm launching the book with events in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane Come see the 2022 Yearly Wrap show I'm hosting at Comedy Republic in Melbourne in December I'm doing a Work in Progress show at the very cool Brunswick Picture House in January Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger @BenSchneiders Hard Labour: Wage Theft in the Age of Inequality is published through Scribe ARTICLE: Shopped Out: SDA & Fair Work Commissions by Ben & Royce Millar Cause of the Week: Join your union (australianunions.org.au) IF YOU WORK IN RETAIL PLEASE JOIN RAFFWU NOT THE SDA (raffwu.org.au)