Arlesh@lemmy.world to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 21 hours agoVictorian prisoners to be sent out to repair roads under Labor’s pothole planwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down11
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkVictorian prisoners to be sent out to repair roads under Labor’s pothole planwww.theguardian.comArlesh@lemmy.world to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarethis_jury_is_hung@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoArticle says that they are being given low-skill jobs like mowing and trash collection, in order to free up paid workers to tackle high-skill jobs. They will be paid a whopping $9 a day for effectively unskilled labour that doesn’t increase their post-release prospects kn any substantive way.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 hours agooh that’s bullshit. Bullshit. Even when doing my 600 hours for my Ag/hort in the fuckin’ '90s I was getting fifty a day. They’re doing time, not fucking slaves
Article says that they are being given low-skill jobs like mowing and trash collection, in order to free up paid workers to tackle high-skill jobs.
They will be paid a whopping $9 a day for effectively unskilled labour that doesn’t increase their post-release prospects kn any substantive way.
oh that’s bullshit. Bullshit. Even when doing my 600 hours for my Ag/hort in the fuckin’ '90s I was getting fifty a day.
They’re doing time, not fucking slaves