While I most certainly want Labour to win a majority so that they are snookered into having to actually be transformative rather than pretend NZ First is holding them back, there really are moments where you have to choke back the rage vomit.
Take this tweet…
…doesn’t this manage to sum up everything wrong with Labour?
How ugly is it that the Government seeks praise for raising the wages of the thugs who police WINZ offices to stop angry beneficiaries from venting their rage at the toxic culture of WINZ
The poor coming to those doors require help, not the thugs who guard the doors!
The toxic culture of WINZ is an abomination in a nation that pretends to be egalitarian, Labour celebrating better conditions for those thugs as some giant success for unionism is the type of narrow Wellington jobs for life mindset that overtakes any Union offical who lives there.
The wage subsidy ends two weeks before the election, but don’t worry, the thugs on the doors of WINZ will be paid a living wage when they shake you down as you turn up to apply for welfare.
Ugly. So very ugly.
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Their timing could hardly be worse. The wage subsidies are nearing their end, aren’t they? This is the signal they are sending?
Exactly. Labour should have put Beneficiaries on a living wage.
As a lifelong union supporter, I have always been appalled by PSA members often being the ones that apply the sadism to our vulnerable citizens that try and get some assistance-if they can get past the security of course!
I had a bad time at WINZ years ago but there are some good people working there and none of them deserve to be shot and killed like the staff in Ashburton. The staff are following the rules set by governments both Labour and National the members of which have had little contact with WINZ as a”client”. I am not an a fan of Labour or Little but if the wages were better they may attract a better standard of worker
Can’t say that I’ve ever considered them thugs.
This doesn’t mean that I agree that they should be there – they shouldn’t. But to change that requires changing the culture of WINZ and NZ to stop showing beneficiaries as bludgers and as the victims of the business community who want to keep wages down so that they’re own bludging, in the form of profits, is higher.
100% Draco
“victims of the business community ”
Very apt Draco couldn’t agree more.
The ” living wage ” is a feelgood neoliberal slang for we pretend to care so be grateful !!!
“Everything wrong with Labour in one tweet ”
Re phrase everything wrong with the neoliberal economy and those who safeguard it and keep it in place.
Agree DTB. Martyn watch that you don’t get an infection – the Mike Hosking mania virus.
Workers across the board deserve the living wage. However, beneficiaries need enough to survive on! That is the one glaring omission from Labour’s time in office.
These security guards may well be needed in the times ahead, as the queues lengthen and new applicants become angry when they discover there is NO real safety net. Many will find that they do not receive enough to feed their children.
What a pathetic tweet, what a pathetic attempt to be relevant.
YO YO YO LOOK AT ME!!! OVER HERE!!! I’M ANDREW LITTLE!!! LOOK AT ME!!!! I’M ON TWITTER. SOCIAL MEDIA!!! HEY OVER HERE!!! WOW I’M TWEETING. LOOK AT ME!!! HEY I LOVE THOSE HASH TAGS AND I KNOW HOW TO USE THEM NOW, SO I’M KOOL AZ KARDASHIAN!!!
Sometimes it takes one to know one, eh Herman?
It’s about work place safety . Not that yourself or the lumpen proletariat that cause trouble at MSD would know anything about that.
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