05 September 2022
Recent figures show businesses have increased their profits much faster than their workers’ wages, with finance leading that shift. But there is one sector of the finance industry where workers have maintained an above-average share.
It is the cooperative and mutuals sector, where businesses are generally owned by their customers, or are sometimes a collective of producers or workers.
Read the full article, Are cooperatives and mutuals one answer to Australia’s weak wages growth? on ABC News, 5 September 2022
Listen to the story on ABC RN Breakfast, with interviews with Simone Tregeagle, CEO rt Health and Mark Genovese, CEO Westfund and Melina Morrison, CEO BCCM
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