The Daily Blog are proud to announce that the Dignity, Equality and a Living Wage public debate will be live streamed on The Daily Blog 7pm Wednesday (tomorrow night) from the Pt Chevalier Primary School Auditorium.
The Coalition of Selwyn Supporters will hold a public meeting Wednesday 5th August 7pm, at Pt Chevalier Primary School Auditorium to call on the Selwyn Foundation to lead the way in aged care by paying a Living Wage to their staff and ensuring that residents live with dignity.
The Living Wage rate is $19.25 per hour and Selwyn pays the vast majority of its caregiving, cleaning, laundry and service staff between $14.75 and $17.97 per hour.
The meeting will bring together the constituencies of the coalition, which include residents of Selwyn, families of residents, Auckland Grey Power, local Pt Chevalier residents and members of the Living Wage Movement Aotearoa.
The meeting will host three keynote speakers. Judy McGregor, author of the 2012 Human Rights Commission report ‘Caring Counts’ on the aged care workforce. Dr. Jackie Blue, Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner and Charles Waldegrave, researcher from the Family Centre Social Policy Centre who calculated the living wage rate.
Selwyn Foundation resident Jenefer Wright is concerned about the wages of staff at the Foundation. “We residents lead privileged lives here at Selwyn Village, but as I age and become less active, I would feel uncomfortable and morally compromised if the workers caring for me earned less than a Living Wage.”
Diana Yukich from Living Wage Aotearoa says “low pay means that many workers at Selwyn are struggling to pay for basic necessities to support their families and that impacts our society as whole. Selwyn can do their bit to reduce poverty, by paying a Living Wage”.
Dignity, equality and a living wage is a right denied to so many by the very few.
All the best for a great debate – common sense, common goal, commoners’ wealth!
“I would feel uncomfortable and morally compromised if the workers caring for me earned less than a Living Wage.”
Awesome, Jenefer Wright….puts paid to the myth that the seniors don’t care.
Never mind a ‘ living wage’, which would only be vacuumed up by the banks and other bastards ratcheting up the cost of ‘ living’ .
Lets demand our resources and amenities back. Like electricity, communications, rail, both for freight and passengers and a wholly NZ owned peer to peer bank?
And how about demanding constraints on money fetishists like jonky to make sure the scum can’t fuck around with our economy for their pleasure and profits ?
People who argue for a ‘living wage’ need to understand the above. I understand you have the best intentions but it’s arse about face.
Forget about an increase in an hourly rate. It’s a waste of time. Instead lets DEMAND our stuff and things back!
Well done!
Credit to the techie who kept the live stream stable, enabling those of us who couldn’t be there, to be there.
Shame on the Selwyn Foundation for not fronting up.
Thanks TDB for supporting this movement.
thanks to those that made the broadcast possible, my partner went to the meeting and I was able to watch with one eye while doing other stuff
this is a good test case with the partial gentrification of Pt Chev, in how to engage with middle class and non traditional union supporters, an ex Nat MP and EEO person on board and the SFWU and locals is a good basis for making progress at Selwyn
the population bubble of people that is already needing aged care services could drive the Living Wage campaign nicely, sure many people approach not necessarily from a class action basis–just wanting aunty looked after well–but it matters not in getting some more runs on the board for Living Wage
Would it be possible to watch the meeting again? Is there a recording available?
I would dearly love to share this with relatives who have a “license to occupy” with another company.
A while ago I was endeavoring to raise their consciousness about the low wages of the care staff and especially the exploitation of the migrant workers….who, according to my relatives “are happy in their work, and used to living on little pay.”
Seeing ‘respectable’ Kiwis advocating with conviction for a living wage and freedom of speech for all, just might, maybe, succeed where I failed.
Good work, comrades.
Kia ora Rosemary – yes the video will be on demand, posted up here at the end of the week. Thank you for your interest.
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