Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:32 am, April 27th, 2013 - 5 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, employment, john key, national, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags: race to the bottom, wages
…a business meeting that "we would love to see wages drop". Subsequent events had all … Key's denials the erosion of wages began, of course, from…fire way of bringing down wages. The goal is even… collective agreement. Our low wages are marketed by National as…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 2:30 pm, January 23rd, 2009 - 18 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags:
… today's wages theme, The Herald is reporting: "Mr Key would not rule… Report quoted him saying "We would love to see wages drop". Outraged, Key lambasted the Bay… reported it), yelling he would never want to see wages go down. But it…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 1:01 pm, October 7th, 2010 - 36 comments
Categories: john key, same old national, wages
Tags: incomes, recession
… that to lift the average. Looking just at wages. The median wage earners'… pay packet failed to keep up… that Key told business he "would love to see wages drop" and that's the goal we're…
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 12:41 pm, February 22nd, 2008 - 30 comments
Categories: john key, national, workers' rights
Tags: john key, national, workers' rights
…audience "we would love to see wages drop", I sent an email to all 91 MPs…saying "we would love to see wages to drop" Do you agree that wages should drop or do… Bennett Key was referring to Australia, and he was… said that Wayne Mapp See excuses in the Herald…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 2:16 pm, March 24th, 2010 - 11 comments
Categories: minimum wage, national/act government, public services, unemployment, wages
Tags: john key
… Key's statement that he "would love to see wages drop". Let's see how the plan is playing… a wage dropping government you don't actually have to bring down wages in nominal… Key was good to his word. Wages are dropping thanks to a combination of…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 6:38 pm, June 16th, 2011 - 155 comments
Categories: human rights, minimum wage, wages
Tags: youth rates
…poised to announce a policy to reintroduce the youth minimum wage … from a government that "would love to see wages drop"? Oh, and before some…says the minimum wage creates unemployment, let's see what the … of increasing the minimum wage on job growth is…
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 6:22 am, January 26th, 2009 - 46 comments
Categories: national/act government, wages, workers' rights
Tags: minimum wage
… was quoted as saying "we would love to see wages drop". Inexplicably, the media at the… have said that he wanted to see wages drop because "obviously he has no… serious when he said he would love to see wages drop. And, no, he wasn't talking…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:26 am, February 3rd, 2010 - 28 comments
Categories: class war, john key, Media, same old national, wages
Tags:
…John Key said he "would love to see wages drop". You might remember the big… the comments to retract them, which he would not do,… Well, guess what, wages are dropping and the smile on …full story). Wages down, jobs disappearing. I'm waiting to see what John…
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:30 pm, October 11th, 2011 - 21 comments
Categories: activism, Campaign Hub 2011, cost of living, democratic participation, election 2011, The Standard, wages
Tags: campaign hub 2011
… draws together Key's "we would love to see wages drop" admission with the results of…that's needed is you. Dropping these flyers in letterboxes around…and want to slip something extra in with your drop. If … third party spending has to be registered with the…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 8:28 am, October 22nd, 2009 - 20 comments
Categories: capitalism, john key, national/act government, same old national, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags:
…. Tell him to get stuffed. I don't see him and his… is dispicable that Key would try to pitch worker against worker…reflect the fact that he "would love to see wages drop". He is not interested …in lifting wages for working New Zealanders. …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:57 am, July 21st, 2013 - 8 comments
Categories: class war, Economy, employment, health and safety, minimum wage, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags: helen kelly, living wage
… why are companies unable to pay a living wage? It seems locally… that there is a race to the… that wages are just too low. But the government continues to push… the claim that John Key would love to see wages drop is true.
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 10:30 am, February 27th, 2012 - 89 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, wages, workers' rights
Tags: nurses, ports of auckland, talleys
John Key said he "would love to see wages drop", and his government has achieved…of Auckland is trying to slash its wage bill by 20% by…750 workers indefinitely, also trying to casualise its workforce. And …of job cuts. You won't see John Key, the Talleys, …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 12:59 pm, May 28th, 2008 - 19 comments
Categories: Media, national
Tags: journalism, kiwisaver, wage drop quote
… contributions to KiwiSaver was not going to be compulsory…John Key saying 'we would love to see wages drop'. Soper also …to stop him running an interview in which English said National would… borrow for tax cuts. National sees the media as a tool to…
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 10:01 pm, February 28th, 2008 - 51 comments
Categories: john key, national, workers' rights
Tags: john key, national, workers' rights
… government would make wages drop if it were so inclined is not clear to… a wage dropping government you don't actually have to bring down wages in nominal… that full "we would love to see wages drop' quote again). Wage rises are inflationary is…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 12:21 pm, September 30th, 2010 - 23 comments
Categories: class war, wages
Tags:
… Key tells a businesswoman he "would love to see wages drop". National makes sub-inflation minimum… corporate trying to keep Kiwi film wages down Anyone else see a pattern… and run by big business "would love to see wages drop". Isn't it?
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 10:46 am, February 20th, 2008 - 144 comments
Categories: john key, national, tax, workers' rights
Tags: john key, national, tax, workers' rights
"We would love to see wages drop". You would think that given the simmering debate about our wage gap… late December last year. "We would love to see wages drop" Think about what that means… answers on how to raise wages. They seem only to want to talk about…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 9:25 am, June 9th, 2011 - 32 comments
Categories: Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags:
… that removing workers' right to the minimum wage, at least for youth… the exodus to Australia by New Zealanders, lured by attractive wage compensation… more.Mr Key would like to see the opposite occur. "We would love to see wages drop," he says…
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 6:12 am, July 29th, 2008 - 34 comments
Categories: national, wages, workers' rights
Tags:
… increases. John Key said he "would love to see wages drop". He has already announced a… to below inflation wage rises. He has refused to commit to lifting the minimum wage… did in the 1990s, National would make wages drop. Will you vote for…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 12:30 pm, June 13th, 2011 - 18 comments
Categories: election 2011, minimum wage, national, workers' rights
Tags:
… wage abolition was to blame for the change in youth unemployment, we would see… workforce. The youth minimum wage only applied to 16 and 17 year… unemployment? Clearly not. But they would "love to see wages drop". Reintroducing youth rates is just…
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:35 am, January 18th, 2010 - 132 comments
Categories: employment, minimum wage, workers' rights
Tags:
…12.50. That would restore the minimum wage to 60% of the… average wage. Now, I… working New Zealanders to fall because lower wages = bigger profits …said he "would love to see wages drop". Perhaps he will listen to the vast …
Written By: Tane - Date published: 5:56 pm, March 4th, 2008 - 53 comments
Categories: john key, Media, workers' rights
Tags: john key, Media, workers' rights
… John Key's statement that he "would love to see wages drop". Here's what Cullen said: I… proposed that New Zealand wages should drop, then tried to explain himself by… he meant that Australian wages should drop, then tried to say he did…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:12 am, March 11th, 2010 - 21 comments
Categories: capitalism, education, national, public services, unemployment, wages
Tags: anne tolley, bill english, john key, norway
… such a party you probably "would love to see wages drop" as John Key once told… the government is willing to pay to constrain wages, and it's not like… Australia and, to keep wages down, it is happy to keep unemployment up…
Written By: James Henderson - Date published: 9:48 am, May 15th, 2012 - 10 comments
Categories: workers' rights
Tags:
…, ultimately leading to lower wages (hey, Key did say he "would love to see wages drop", remember): The… Government also wants employers to be able to deduct the wages…
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 11:41 am, April 9th, 2011 - 56 comments
Categories: bill english, Economy, wages
Tags: AMI, bail-outs, south canterbury finance
…you want higher wages, you have to lift your productivity'….equal higher wages and the route to higher wages isn't in… Key – remember: "we would love to see wages drop?" While I'm writing about National's… statutory management – which would have at least put …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 10:51 am, July 29th, 2008 - 27 comments
Categories: labour, national, wages, workers' rights
Tags:
… look at the minimum wage over periods of National government… had it easy', we'll see how even the weak growth…has been quoted saying he "would love to see wages drop", and they have released … for increasing wages but plenty of changes that would force them…
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 7:17 am, July 17th, 2008 - 25 comments
Categories: national, workers' rights
Tags: 90 day policy, minimum wage
… so workers' can't organise to fight for wage rises and better conditions… that undermine rights and wages. After all, Key "would love to see wages drop" and that's as… simple as not raising the minimum wage and…
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 11:58 am, April 22nd, 2008 - 18 comments
Categories: election 2008, im/migration, national, workers' rights
Tags: election 2008, im/migration, national, workers' rights
…fair to task: what would National do to ease emigration to Australia? Would they…inflation?)" Would they increase wages? No, John Key says he "would love to see wages drop", and…National government would encourage emigration through increasing the wage gap …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 2:27 pm, July 16th, 2008 - 25 comments
Categories: john key, tax, wages, workers' rights
Tags: inflation
… inflation and needs to be reduced. Wage inflation is a…that "we would love to see wages drop". He wants businesses to be able to pay their…cutting the social wage to cover tax cuts would make most people …worse off because they would have to buy things that …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 4:02 pm, May 12th, 2008 - 48 comments
Categories: election 2008, families
Tags: 'new zealand sucks' campaign, mums
…wages are up? No wonder Key "would love to see wages drop"). So, it's nice to…Ratio of estimated female to male earned income, … from government policy. See how these following policies…paternal leave, higher minimum wage, lower unemployment, Working for…
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 11:40 am, September 3rd, 2011 - 24 comments
Categories: afghanistan, Media, spin
Tags:
… journos straight up refused to cover the story when … quoted John Key saying he "would love to see wages drop" (apart from Colin Espiner,… a PM can't affect wages!). You see some of the rumour…made regarding access in choosing to ignore a hugely damaging …
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