Written By: - Date published: 5:10 pm, April 17th, 2008 - 73 comments
Categories: workers' rights -
Tags: workers' rights
With the loss of 500 ANZ National jobs to Bangalore India and 430 jobs from Fisher and Paykel to Mexico announced today, a pattern is emerging.
The race to the bottom has picked up speed. Companies are increasingly outsourcing their work to low wage economies, like China, India and Mexico, putting hundreds of New Zealand workers out of work.
And it will only get worse. As soon as companies feel the fear of low wage economy competition, they will similarly outsource or close up shop altogether and similar job losses will occur. It’s about time the New Zealand public put a stop to this downward spiral and that means supporting campaigns to stop this, refusing to buy goods made with slave labour and making sure that companies know we will not support them in their attacks on us and workers around the world.
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Tane
irigate is possibly a little less pragmatic than yourself, apologies for grouping you with irrigate on the matter of;
“refusing to buy goods made with slave labour and making sure that companies know we will not support them in their attacks on us and workers around the world.”
I think he/she has bitten off a little more than they can chew with that stance.
I look forward to the standards coverage of the Dr’s strike, I expect you could do a pretty analysis of how Dr’s pay compares to Aussie over the National years and the Labour years. It would be interesting to see given the high profile nature of this current industrial action. Additionally did you see the letter in this weeks Listener by Kevin Atkinson? It’s on page 8 and it’s titled “David Cunliffe”.
Health looks like it might almost rival the EFA as an election issue.
Tane
Reading that… do a pretty good analysis of hows Dr’s pay….
Sorry, I wasn’t denigrating you based on the presentation of the graphs, rather that it would be well represented on bar graphs.
[lprent: looks like you lost a bold tag or two. I've corrected it as it looked a bit loud. Hope it is correct]
Hey burt, I’ll try and do something if I have time. As you’ll have noticed my posting has dropped off in recent times, and I’m largely limited to making the comment. And no, haven’t seen the Listener – I stopped watching it after Pamela Stirling dragged it to the right and made it into a baby boomer magazine.