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NZCTU/Te Kauae Kaimahi Economist & Director of Policy. Treasury Security Risk. Believer in a Better Aotearoa. Also at https://craigrenney.substack.com/
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Melissa Ansell-Bridges has published a useful piece examining the pay equity changes in detail and explaining how they are not small policy changes but rather a structural demolition of pay equity law that will lock in pay discrimination for years to come. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Join us at Parliament on Budget Day to stand up and fight back against the Government’s decision to gut the Equal Pay Act. #ProtectPayEquity

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

#nzpol At 5pm yesterday, the Treasury informed the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi (NZCTU) it has been barred from attending the Budget lock-up on 22 May. This is the first time the CTU has been prevented from attending a Budget lock-up in living memory

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

The Pay Equity changes need clear and honest answers from this government. The hundreds of thousands of workers whose lives will be affected by this decision should expect nothing less. A list of currently unanswered questions is here: craigrenney.substack.com/p/pay-equity...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

These are the pay equity claims that the government wiped out in just two days to make its budget balance. It's appalling that tax breaks for tobacco companies are being funded by cutting women's pay rises and backpay. (Also listed in alt text)

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

The fourth episode of Locked Out is now available - looking at housing with Bernard Hickey. Find us on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRME...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Unemployment data released today by Statistics New Zealand shows ongoing weakness in the labour market, with falling employment, falling hours of work, and nearly half of all workers getting a pay rise less than inflation. A 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

#nzpol The pay equity decision today – just before Mothers Day – takes employment law back decades. It will likely impact the earnings of hundreds of thousands of women, often working in some of the most poorly paid work. It will cost us all in the long-run. A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/chan...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Wasn’t going to have a drink this weekend but the Australian Election might push me to it. Two elections in a week - both looking likely to keep the right in opposition. Winning bigly some might say.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

If the operating allowance has been halved - that’s a sign of real stress on the Budget. That’s not enough money to pay for cost pressures just in the health service - nevermind anything else. This Budget will now be paid for with cuts.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Episode 2 of Locked Out is now available 😀 - looking at the minimum wage after two years of below inflation increases by this government. We also examine the $8,944 a year loss facing workers who might lose the Living Wage due to government proposals. podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/l...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Locked Out with Craig Renney was the top ranked NZ news podcast today on Apple! Thank you to everyone who has supported the podcast and helped make it possible. If you haven’t caught it yet - you can download it at podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/loc…. P.S. Mike Hoskings was eighth.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment