Fair payment to be scrapped if National get in

[Lilith7]

National says it would immediately scrap the fair pay agreement & several other things, if it becomes the next govt. They just may be shooting themselves in the foot by doing so; there are after all, quite a lot of workers who will benefit from this, & so it smacks of not wanting to give working people a fair go.


And really, their claiming that its 'socialism' reminded me of this: 


“Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

 

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

 

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

 

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

 

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

 

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”

Harry S Truman





https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-nat...ted-debate

"Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood said the bill was a step towards reversing the "radical deregulation of the labour market" 30 years ago when a then-National government stripped back collective worker rights through the Employment Contracts Act.

At the time National MPs claimed productivity and wages would improve, which Wood said had not eventuated.
"The promises that they made in that funk of deregulation, that they still live in a fever dream of, were proven to be false."

Wood said the legislation was about supporting the most vulnerable workers, including the essential workers who'd "kept us safe through Covid-19".

It would stop a "race to the bottom", where lacking adequate regulation employers were inclined to drive wages and conditions down to stay competitive.
Wood, as with other Labour MPs, also paid tribute to the late union leader Helen Kelly, saying the law invoked her "most important values and contributions".
"That was the value that we are better off when we are together when we bring everyone to the table, including working people."

Acting Prime Minister Grant Robertson said the 1991 changes and reduction in wages were "not by accident, but by design".

"Today we turn that around," he said, to loud cheers from the Labour caucus.

Robertson said it was not a bad law for good employers, who would no longer be forced to drive their wages and worker conditions down to stay competitive.

"This is a day for employers to celebrate just as much as employees."









https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politic...-and-scrap