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The SDA is alerting you to

  1. Retail productivity being up 26%, while real wages are down -1%, and that’s not half of it. A productivity debt in retail of 27% means retail workers’ average total annual earnings have dropped since 2007. Across all industries, if workers had received wage increases since 2000 that matched productivity growth, wages could be 18% higher – worth $350 per week, or $18,000 per year.
  2. Pressure on Australian retail from anti-union, anti-worker companies. Behaviour of international retailers like ALDI (with low tech, low staff model causing high work intensity & injury rates) and Amazon (with high tech, high surveillance and extremely high work intensity with high staff turnover) are pushing traditional Australian retailers down a similar path (with unsuitable labour demand software pushing high work intensity).

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SDA Policy Brief - Productivity and Retail Under Pressure
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