Press Release – Auckland Action Against Poverty
In the lead up to the budget being released next week Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) has planned a March down Ponsonby Road to ensure that people and families remain a priority for this Labour government.
“This March has been organised because we’re tired of waiting for the Labour government to fulfill their promise to transform the welfare system,” says AAAP spokesperson Brooke Pao Stanley.
“The communities we serve deserve to be valued and treated with dignity. They deserve to live and participate in society without being made to feel shame about their situation. The shame sits with a system that determines your worth based on paid employment.
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The fair pay agreement policy is aimed at improving private sector wages and conditions and encouraging firms to invest in training.
Earlier this week, the pay of public servants earning more than $60,000 a year was frozen for the next three years. Pay rises for those in this salary range can only be made under exceptional circumstances.
Auckland Action Against Poverty is calling on the government to reverse the pay freeze for public servants.
Coordinator Brooke Pao Stanley said when inflation was taken into account, many workers would experience a pay cut in real terms. We know how hard it is for people who are living on inadequate incomes. We re living through a housing crisis and the cost of living continues to rise, she said.
Press Release – Auckland Action Against Poverty Auckland Action Against Poverty stands in solidarity with all public sector workers affected by the Governments announced pay freeze. On Wednesday the Government announced that workers earning between $60,000 and $100,000 would only receive a …
Auckland Action Against Poverty stands in solidarity with all public sector workers affected by the Government’s announced pay freeze.
On Wednesday the Government announced that workers earning between $60,000 and $100,000 would only receive a pay rise if there is “serious recruitment pressure in their area”, and that workers earning over $100,000 would receive no pay rises.
When the effects of inflation are taken into account, many people will experience the pay freeze as a real-terms pay cut.
Press Release – Auckland Action Against Poverty
Auckland Action Against Poverty stands in solidarity with all public sector workers affected by the Government’s announced pay freeze.
On Wednesday the Government announced that workers earning between $60,000 and $100,000 would only receive a pay rise if there is “serious recruitment pressure in their area”, and that workers earning over $100,000 would receive no pay rises.
When the effects of inflation are taken into account, many people will experience the pay freeze as a real-terms pay cut.
“We see in our work every day the struggles people are going through on inadequate incomes as rents rise and bills increase. This freeze is unjust and demoralising for nurses, teachers, and other workers who have done so much to get us through the pandemic,” says Auckland Action Against Poverty coordinator Brooke Pao Stanley
Press Release – Auckland Action Against Poverty Auckland Action Against Poverty stands in solidarity with all public sector workers affected by the Governments announced pay freeze. On Wednesday the Government announced that workers earning between $60,000 and $100,000 would only receive a …
Auckland Action Against Poverty stands in solidarity with all public sector workers affected by the Government’s announced pay freeze.
On Wednesday the Government announced that workers earning between $60,000 and $100,000 would only receive a pay rise if there is “serious recruitment pressure in their area”, and that workers earning over $100,000 would receive no pay rises.
When the effects of inflation are taken into account, many people will experience the pay freeze as a real-terms pay cut.