NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President Richard Wagstaff is calling on the Government to intervene and protect local manufacturing, following the announced closure of the pulp and paper mill at Penrose, Auckland, which is off the back of the recently announced closure of two mills in the Ruapehu district.
“It’s devastating that so soon after the news about the Ruapehu mills, we are now seeing another pulp and paper mill go under, and around 75 job losses,” said Wagstaff.
“This points to increasing market failure in a critical industry, which will have severe impacts for local communities and New Zealand’s manufacturing sector.
“The Government should show some leadership and intervene to protect communities from further mill closures and job losses.
“This Government pretends it has a plan to improve the life of kiwis, and to build our economy, but we look at the choices they are making, the reality is their inaction speaks louder than words.
“At a time when the country is facing economic uncertainty and rising unemployment, ministers should be doing a lot more to support local manufacturers, including by stepping up with a plan to ensure power price stability.
“Our thoughts are with FIRST Union and E tū members and all workers at the Penrose mill who are facing the awful prospect of losing their jobs,” said Wagstaff.
If we didn’t have 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires and four now foreign owned banks literally stealing $180.00 a second after tax 24/7/365 making them the second most profitable banks in the world only to Canada then we could pay a living wage to stay at home to people bullshitted into pointless employment to simply be harvested by the above to grow a fucking vegetable garden while cuddling their kids and being happy human beings.
If you’re trying to figure out the mystifying anomaly that is AO/NZ’s economy then keep it simple for the sake of your mental health. Going down the rabbit holes well laid out to trap the curious and unwary to murder them by using logical fallacies after subjecting them to gaslighting techniques to control and abuse us has been going on since the vile natzo virus, a disease we caught back in 1936 from two mating groups of opportunist greed oriented political organisations populated by fat lazy fucks who’d have discovered that it was easier to swindle money out of those who earned it rather than working for it themselves.
50 thousand farmers earn our money by all but giving away that which they produce to a cadre of mafia scum who run this limping shit show we think of as proud New Zealand’s economy to then feast off the post farm gate profits they steal via dubiously legitimised bankster scum and an entirely corrupt politic and the IRD who are no more than heavies sent in to lean on people should those people make more money for themselves rather than have it disappear into the bottoms of the pocketsessss of the 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires and four now foreign owned banks literally stealing $180.00 a second after tax 24/7/365.
RNZ
Wealthy people pay lower tax in NZ than in similar states, study shows
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/528379/wealthy-people-pay-lower-tax-in-nz-than-in-similar-states-study-shows
That’s because the IRD is corrupt as fuck and owned by the rich. I mean, duh!
‘State’ ! We’re not a fucking ‘state’ ! Beware of the creeping narratives from our new owners cuing up to steal our AOTEAROA / NEW fucking ZEALAND!
@ NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President Richard Wagstaff . You, dear fellow, have no idea what’s going on. And has been going on since about 1910.
One more thing.
What’s going on right now! All of it! Our economy’s being deliberately tanked to force us into taking deals offered us from our new foreign owners lining up to buy our AO/NZ. I know this because I now add climate failure to the desperation people will be feeling as our planet’s ecosystems begin to fail to the reality that anyone in AO/NZ has a better chance of survival than literally anywhere else on Earth and because our farmers are manipulated and abused they’re conditioned to taking any deal going. As a farmer, I can tell you, shit’s about to get desperately real on many levels and we have a cadre of greedy, nasty, little criminals with their boots on our necks to ensure their rental properties remain absurdly over-priced.