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Podcast: "The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison
Episode: Episode 94: The boomer fantasy of wage spirals, the failed states of America and good news about Queensland coal
Description: Van Badham and Ben Davison emerge from their COVID isolation to breakdown the real story behind the wages debate in Australia.
The reality doesn't match the ideological chest beating from the business lobby who were quick to claim a Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) mandate for a wages cap (their isn't one) to stop a "wages spiral" and that Sally McManus, leader of Australian Unions, had called the RBA governor a "boomer". (She didn't). Â
Van and Ben look at the ways collective bargaining is failing, how it can/could work to lift wages, some innovations li...