Union Anger at MSD ID crackdown

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Security guards unionised by Unite Union at MSD sites are angry with new policy changes brought in by the Government yesterday, that now sees them stopping every citizen trying to access their rights, and asking them for their name, appointment, and photo ID.

“This is causing queues at the door, and increased frustration from jobless workers and other citizens needing assistance delayed.” said Unite Union’s Senior Organiser, Joe Carolan.

“Ken Loach’s film “I, Daniel Blake”, which won the BAFTA awards for Best Film last night, details similar restrictive humiliations in Austerity Britain.

Here in Aotearoa, unions representing Security guards will be reaching out to organisations fighting for beneficiaries and other jobless citizens, making sure that the National Government’s policies are not pitting us against each other, and we see no repeat of the tragic incident at Ashburton.

The real risk to health and safety in our society is caused by an economic system that has failed tens of thousands of jobless workers and the poor.” said Mr Carolan.

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16 COMMENTS

  1. Then MSD had better change location and layout so local shop owners don’t have their trade put at risk, the pavements are not clogged putting mums and prams, or mobility aid users out into the road, and there’s shelter – plus enough guards and quick answer services to keep the customers flowing.

    And a bit of advocacy from town and city councils to protect their shopping centres.

    Some of those security guards can be frighteningly heavy and aggressive – even to senior folk. Hope they’re being trained for manners and defusing fear rather than behaving as bouncers.

    And that our gormless government has created a budget to do this system change that won’t vanish overnight at the next budget.

      • Hi Geoff

        Yes most beneficiaries do not have passports or even driving licences, this rule is plain crazy! It’s easy to check a claimants ID by asking DOB and other personal details.

        I think NZ is going fing mad under this National Bunch of total soul destroying losers ( destroy a nations pride and dignity and self belief) It really makes me despair! And that’s not rhetoric!

  2. It will be all part of the grand plan to scare people off from coming into MSD. Hence sanctions and therefore people bugger off just the way thes Natz want it. The whole ID thing is so logical just make it hard to get in and people won’t and again the Natz love it… its so logical when you look it from a distance.

  3. This is not the kind of thing that people study much but the few attempts that are made to evaluate barriers to enter MSD exceed all attempts to deny migrant refugees entry into New Zealand. This is all so called welfare but this is only the beginning because its a straight swap of funds between New Zealands most vulnerable and liberal/identitirian/academic charlatans. Most of these funds are being funnelled into the security sector and this is just the front end that people can see.

    When barriers of entry are priced at zero it is very difficult to see MSD being sold out from under you because there are no for sale signs out the front. Now there is a for sale sign out the front (replace security guard with a for sale sign). Its taken 50 years for empirical data to show up but those that pointed out the quite obvious financial train wreck smashing this planet into smithereens have now got the I told you soo’s on full volume.

    If there is any time to take ur advice it is now: in no specific order, vote Labour/TOP/MANA/GREEN with a nod to the maori party, specifically Marama Fox so Te Ururoa can coat tail on Marama instead of countervailing.

    I bet Winnie will be the biggest loser out of all of this.

    If we truly want to see all this paper work of ID checks and welfare checks and so on and so forth to collapse in these charlatans faces only notions of a UBI can do that from here on out ie fire all these muppets and give them a UBI and see how much they actually care for the vulnerable.

  4. is the government trying the spark violence tension/desperation around msd is already sky high these poor minimum wage guards shouldn’t be put at risk. the buck stops with the government the blame lies with national

    • Yep, hence the endless barrage of advertising on video screens inside WINZ Offices, to use ‘My MSD’ online, to check on things, to present information and to ask for appointments.

      So those who have no access to computers and free internet, the poorest, they end up getting NO physical access anymore one day. The 0800 phone line already involves waiting times between at least 10 to 60 minutes for any person to call in to a call centre to arrange an appointment or so. That is the first phase, next phase is ‘My MSD’, possibly one day getting rid of 0800 calls, and those not getting through, get no appointment, and NO access to any of their offices.

      A truly cunning plan.

  5. Yep, a friend of mine had an appointment at a WINZ office on Monday 13 February 2017, and indeed, three security guards were present, one in front of the door, with a clip board and a list of names and times for appointments.

    I guess those who had no appointment, or were not on the list (maybe accompanying someone to the Office as support person), would be refused entry.

    This is another step into the direction of an authoritarian state here in Little Niu Zilliland, where most are either ignorant of the truth, live in their daily rut and life of chosen distraction by Chatter MSM and social media, and those who simply would not care anyway.

    So the poorest of the poor get hit by this, treated like suspected criminals, and put in line, next they will be forced to wear a yellow ‘WINZ’ sleeve on their shirts, labeling them, something like they did in one Central European country with Jews and so forth, in the 1930s and 1940s.

    Well, I maybe going a bit far with my predictions there, but this is disgusting what goes on.

    Why do they do this at WiNZ offices, and not at ordinary central office towers in the CBD, why do they not do this outside our hospitals and other public buildings???

    They already drove someone to despair in Ashburton some time ago, which ended rather horribly, what do they want to achieve with this, the WINZ bosses???

  6. That is disgusting. What’s next, a strip search just to enter the bloody building? Opposition parties better take strong stances against this BS. Maybe it’s a good time for opposition parties to start floating the concept of the UBI to the public, as a possibility.

    • There is NO opposition party that really dedicates much of their time and efforts to stand up for beneficiaries, full stop. That is at least the fact with the ones sitting in Parliament.

  7. One of the people who decided on this form of NAZI interrogation and demand for papers was a super rich sleeze bag called Murray Jack from Business Round Table (now called NZ Initiative) – along with his mate Mike Bush who is the second highest paid government employee in NZ – on over $12,000 per week. CORRUPTION at the highest levels in order to degrade people on welfare even more.

    I was already having panic attacks being forced to degrade myself at WINZ for years (thanks to ACC refusing health care to get me back to work). Have a very good case manager and we both agreed I shouldn’t come into the office any longer as my agitated strange ticking and anxiety behaviour would upset guards who wouldn’t understand.

    A note for people with traumatic stress disorders like Complex PTSD, when you are phoning WINZ if you hold on the line and don’t try and answer any questions, EVENTUALLY you will get through to a person you can speak to.

    If anybody sees NZ Initiative mentioned anywhere (also Oliver Hartwich or Eric Crampton)- the media love them, please make sure you tell people they are Business Round Table and a right-wing think tank. Aljazeera discussion recently talked about how right-wing think tanks were used to impose neo-liberal terrorism on countries where govts advanced rich, disadvantaged middle class and persecuted poor.

    Chris Hedges also discusses this issue in depth so google him and you’ll see not only NZ citizens who have been persecuted by these radicalised neo-liberal terrorists (please also refer to NZ Terrorism Suppression Act). You are not allowed to destroy infrastructure (like housing, welfare and health) and cause suffering and deaths of citizens – its against the law.

    Kia kaha to us all

  8. They should put photos on community services cards and cold cards to make it easier for beneficiaries and people seeking jobs. And just renew the photo every 12months

    • Don’t give them any ideas, they will then add biometric date, fingerprints and what else they fancy, also a tracking device, to check whether beneficiaries go to bottle stores and buy booze.

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