• Splenetic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Where do National stand on fair pay agreements? (I know ACT hate them). There’s no point making it harder to live on a benefit if it’s also harder to live on minimum wage

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      They have committed to repeal fair pay agreements

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          1 year ago

          They reduce the profits of businesses, i.e. their donors.

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          Right wing parties are generally hostile to collective bargaining because it gives workers greater power to secure better wages and conditions from employers. Even when that bargaining can also lead to productivity improvements through better trained workers, greater retention and so on.

          This is completely consistent with the last times National have been in government. They effectively destroyed unions through the employment contracts act in the early 90s and they’ve never fully recovered, despite some moves to strengthen them when Labour has been in government.

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            I genuinely don’t understand how any blue collar worker could vote for them. It’s directly voting against your own interests.

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      they’re against them, they’re also in favour of making it easier to sack people within 90 days of hiring them which makes it harder for people struggling to get into the workforce.

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        I wish Labour actually did their fucking job and looked after the working class, and the Green party’s biggest priority was the environment. Wouldn’t that be a world to live in.