More than 4,500 jobs are set to go as the National Government continues its deep cuts to services to pay for irresponsible and ill-timed tax cuts.
“Today, we’ve learned another 512 jobs at the Ministry for Primary Industries and Waka Kotahi are set to go, leaving more New Zealanders’ without a job as unemployment rises,” Labour public service spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said.
“Cutting thousands of jobs while spending billions of dollars on a tax break for landlords, charter schools and more prison beds is short-sighted. Local economies and communities across the country will miss out on the services they’re used to.
“Today’s cuts only result in a greater biosecurity risk and potential damage to our farms, food, and forests. Cutting jobs at Waka Kotahi focused on reducing transport emissions is counterproductive and takes us backwards in addressing climate change.
“The Government previously claimed Ministers would go ‘line by line’ through accounts, and that Kiwis could be reassured their tax cuts wouldn’t come at the price of reduced services.
“Six months on – we’re seeing the promise we wouldn’t lose services was a lie.
“Among this latest cohort of jobs lost are families with kids to feed and experts with nowhere to turn but abroad. This is the human cost of National’s tax promise.
“Day by day we see cuts going deeper and further. A weakened public service is not good for anyone and New Zealanders will be worse off for it,” Ayesha Verrall said.
Compared to the vast increase in government jobs under Labour that resulted in no actual improvement this is nothing. To bring balance quote the employee numbers pre labour, the numbers at the end of labour, the number of election promises per ministry and the number of those achieved. Then the numbers debate may mean something. In the meantime this is union PR.
The Labour Party is not a be nice organisation all of the time. Workers made unions and they give all of there policy ambitions to Labour. And the workers since WW2 went off to build schools and hospitals and bridges did they not?
And inside those workplaces was is not those workplaces did the money flow from primary infrastructure projects down to secondary and tertiary projects in the private sector dum dum.
Why on earth would anyone debate a numb nuts like you. We don’t appeal to higher authorities we just build things. Building things, defensive military postures and taxes takes money out of circulation and reduces inflation a high inflation period while not looking like a complete asshole.
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