The 1st of August was a milestone day for the Living Wage movement and low paid Wellington workers. 60 security guards, noise control officers and cleaners at Wellington City Council had their pay lifted from around $15.60 to $18.55.
The internet theoretically came to our rescue because it allowed us to turn our “private troubles” into “public issues” day after day, hour after hour and minute after minute, on Facebook and Twitter, creating the new network infrastructure in our increasingly private and insulated lives. The only problem is that we no longer own the new infrastructure…