John,
You’ve likely seen that unemployment has hit 5.1 percent, which is 33,000 more people unemployed under National. It’s worse for Māori at 9.7 percent and Pasifika at 10.5%.
Headlines show hundreds of people are applying for the same jobs, while mills and meatworks close, school lunch jobs are lost, charities face funding cuts, and record numbers of Kiwis leave for Australia.
Make no mistake. This situation is due to the choices made by this Government. Choices like cutting funding to key public services with one hand and giving landlords and tobacco companies a tax cut with the other.
And while many are struggling to find work because of this Government’s choices, there are further challenges to come for those who are lucky enough to still have a job.
Headed by an ACT Party Minister, the Government is quietly making a raft of concerning changes that many Kiwis might not have heard about.
The National-led Government is:
- removing the minimum wage top-up for disabled workers
- reinstating 90-day trials
- allowing pay to be docked for strike action
- scrapping the pay equity taskforce
- stopping work on pay transparency
- scrapping Fair Pay Agreements
They’re also planning to loosen rules around unjustified dismissals and personal grievances, and reduce sick leave for part-time workers.
And in real terms, people on the minimum wage have gone backwards, despite ongoing cost of living challenges and official advice that it should be higher.
It seems if you aren’t a landlord or a tobacco company, who received $2.9 billion and $216 million respectively in tax breaks from the Government, you’re not on its radar.
When Labour were in Government, we faced some of the most challenging economic conditions in a generation, yet we kept record numbers of people in work, wages grew faster than inflation, and our public debt levels were among the lowest in the world.
We are the party of working people – that’s the reason for our name.
Help us oppose this Government’s reckless attacks <[link removed]> on workers’ rights and make sure they are held to account for every job cut on their watch.
Thank you for your support.
Camilla Belich
Spokesperson for Workplace Relations and Safety
www.labour.org.nz <[link removed]>
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