Comments on: The trans-Tasman wage gap

By: Key on wages at The Standard

Key on wages at The Standard — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:48:40 +0000

[...] wages. We saw a lot of that here in the 1990s under the anti-union Employment Contracts Act, when real wages fell even as productivity [...]

By: The Standard 2.01: Wage gap decreasing thanks to pro-worker policies

The Standard 2.01: Wage gap decreasing thanks to pro-worker policies — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:05:24 +0000

[...] The Standard first reported on April 1 and Radio New Zealand picked up today, Treasury figures show that the wage gap between Australia [...]

By: The Standard 2.01: National lies, again

The Standard 2.01: National lies, again — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:25:55 +0000

[...] just can’t stop lying. We’ve covered National’s lies on wages and migration in the past and our last two posts have debunked National’s lies on crime, the [...]

By: The Standard 2.01: National bleats about wages, still has no solutions

The Standard 2.01: National bleats about wages, still has no solutions — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:35:41 +0000

[...] gap, even though they created it in the first place and have no policy to fix it. Like I’ve pointed out a dozen times [...]

By: The Standard 2.01: Previewing National’s employment policy

The Standard 2.01: Previewing National’s employment policy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:34:40 +0000

[...] rights or lift wages. There will be no mention of how National plans to close the now forgotten wage gap with [...]

By: Sacked at The Standard 2.01

Sacked at The Standard 2.01 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:29:59 +0000

[...] tried this path before and for most workers it meant wages failed to keep up with the cost of living because their rights at work had been stripped away from them. The result was our low wage economy, [...]

By: The grass isn’t greener across the ditch at The Standard 2.01

The grass isn’t greener across the ditch at The Standard 2.01 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:13:33 +0000

[...] have 9 years of anti-worker labour law in the 1990s. Unions are much stronger in Australia and that translates into higher wages and, ultimately, higher productivity. Now, there’s one area where we should be imitating our [...]

By: More bluster, still no policies at The Standard 2.01

More bluster, still no policies at The Standard 2.01 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:15:51 +0000

[...] mention in the Nats’ press release of the wage gap they used to be so obsessed with, either. Because they’ve got no policy, no answer, only attack [...]

By: The wage gap and the Nats’ crediblity gap at The Standard 2.01

The wage gap and the Nats’ crediblity gap at The Standard 2.01 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:06:55 +0000

[...] there is still a wage gap and solutions to it require serious debate. But National wasn’t talking about the wage gap [...]

By: eraser’s blog » Blog Archive » The trans-Tasman wage gap

eraser’s blog » Blog Archive » The trans-Tasman wage gap — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:39:42 +0000

[...] such a shameless rewriting of history would be laughed off in a second, but it seems in … http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=1522 thestandard.org.nz [...]

By: Fairfax reporting staggeringly awful at thestandard.org.nz

Fairfax reporting staggeringly awful at thestandard.org.nz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:44:00 +0000

[...] of the last National Government’s policy on wages New Zealand and Australia now have a 30% wage gap, which is a major driver of Trans-Tasman [...]

By: I got a solution, what’s the problem? at thestandard.org.nz

I got a solution, what’s the problem? at thestandard.org.nz — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:44:17 +0000

[...] that his tax cuts can’t satisfy junior doctors’ wage demands, just as they can’t close the wage gap with Australia. Yet, in typical slippery fashion, he is trying to convince you that tax cuts are a [...]

By: A decent job with fair pay at thestandard.org.nz

A decent job with fair pay at thestandard.org.nz — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:50:30 +0000

[...] governments has been fixing this problem; 47,000 jobs a year have been added. Wages have grown 25% after inflation in eight years. Reports from the Labour Party congress are that the biggest [...]

By: r0b

r0b — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:22:11 +0000

Don’t play semantics with me Kimble, because you’re no Montague. If you want to split hairs on implied causality between:

“Yes, it’s true to say that the upward trend started under National. Also true to say that at they were just recovering” (fuller quote than yours please), and

“Labour have continued the upward trend, improved on it’

then once again, this tells us more about your prejudices than mine.

By: Kimble

Kimble — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:39:38 +0000

Your language betrays you, r0b.

“the upward trend started under National.” implies no causal relationship

“Labour have continued the upward trend, improved on it” states a direct causal relationship

Matthew, are you really trying to equate a single year event with a multi-year trend? What happened in 2000 and 2001? Anything? Idiot.

Did I try to say that the dip was the fault of Labour? No. I am not stupid.

You guys have nothing. You have been pwned so hard, just give up and stop embarassing yourselves.