#socialist alternative

Employers want to drive down the price of labour, because it increases profits.

We compete with each other for jobs. Employers hire workers who will do the same work for lower wages.

When groups like immigrants (and women) join the workforce, the average wage is driven down.

This is because, in havingsocial prejudices, we allow the employing class to use them as an excuse to lower the average wage.

All workers’ pay is agreed relative to this average.

Because prejudices are only a smokescreenfor wage competition, excluding particular groups from the labour market is not a solution.

Wherever possible, employers have simply taken jobs out of developed countries altogether, and gone where the labour is cheaper.

The only solution is therefore to organise and stand in international solidarity with other workers.