Unions have targeted the office of ACT Party leader David Seymour in Auckland as they fight against government plans to repeal Fair Pay Agreements (FPAs).
Last week, a leaked Cabinet paper revealed Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke Van Velden intended to push forward repealing the agreements without holding any consultation with unions or affected workers.
At his post-Cabinet press conference on Monday, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon recommitted to repealing FPAs by christmas.
A hundred and fifty protesters chanted impassioned pleas across the intersection outside Seymour's Epsom electorate office near Westfield newmarket.
FPAs were a return to 1970 style national awards. They were a payoff for labour's union funders and one could have ended up with just 1% of an industry forcing the other 99% into a national award where a small invercargill employer would have to pay the same wages as a huge multinational in Auckland, if their jobs were similiar.
Great to see the Government doing what they promised, and repealing them quickly.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
2 comments:
Nation wide awards triggerd the colossal inflltion of the 1970s and which continued for decades.Wwith everythingratcheting and only upwards off everything else inflation will never be controlled. As the only sure protection property prices will continue exhorbitant.
So important are these agreements to protecting workers rights that even under a Labour govt. with it's hand in the trade unions pockets, not one Fair Pay Agreement was formulated in the 6 year Jacinda govt. Just the disaffected left desperately searching for something to bleat about.
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