Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is accusing unions of driving an increase in industrial action by prioritising politics over its priorities.
Secondary school teachers across the country are to strike from Tuesday after stalled collective agreement negotiations.
They’ll also take part in a mega strike next week, involving more than 100,000 education and health workers.
Luxon told Morning Report the disruption is a shame and he believes workers want to reach a pay deal.
“It’s a shame, really. I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients, or kids in education and parents being mucked around,” he said.
this week the Prime Minister tired of bashing teenagers on welfare and decided instead to attack the Unions for striking against his terrible policies.
Apparently it’s come as shock to the Prime Minister that all the public servants his policies and cut backs have been abusing are all going on a mega strike.
In an almost Trumpian level of delusion, the Prime Minister had the audacity of blaming the Unions for, and I quote, “prioritising politics over patients”.
I’m sorry, who underfunded public health and gave millions in contracts to the private health sector?
It wasn’t the Unions!
The Prime Minister blaming Unions for striking against his terrible policies is like a drug dealer criticising you for being addicted.
Perhaps the PM should stick to bashing teenagers on welfare, because they can’t really fight back, and punching down is more his style.
Remember, he’s wealthy, and he’s sorted.
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Just sayin’ If Chippy was straight up front we’d respect LINO more: 1. Yes we will levy a CGT with teeth and a wealth tax OR NO! we will do neither. Instead we’re left in the dark. How can people be motivated by this?
Wealth inequality is a soul destroying problem in this former happy Land. LINO has to reject Neoliberalism. Chippy hides in the camouflage too much to inspire.
And what has this silly little comment of yours have to do with the issue being written about above? I will let you off having to actually think… Absolutely nothing…
Next time you want to rant about things you don’t understand, do it where there are trained professionals who specialise in psychiatric disorders, or remedial learning…
They’ll keep you from harming yourself..
100000 people cant be wrong .And under neath the employers will be backing them because they want these arseholes gone because they are not making any money because 40% of the work force are either unemployed or under employed so they have no cash to spend so the 10% cant fleece the 90% to enable the 1%
That is the evidence, 100,000 people will take part but there are 100’s of thousands of others that will be at work who stand by them. Blaming and attacking unions is very lazy politics because Luxon like every right wing government knows that unions hold their governments to account and they detest this. Why do National promote a low wage economy? Because unchecked they can.
Yes all the other unions should step up to the plate and join in .Corrections managers are trying to convince staff to not take part .
All parents who are positioned to do so should take their children to join a local picket line or march as a lesson in solidarity; to send the message to prime minister that the inconvenience is him.
Fight the class war.
TL —
It could hurt the children though, and then Luxon wins at cowardice again.
Better idea?
Get Collins to speak to this idea. See what her conscience is like these days. Does she want the precious children trying to show her dear leader what’s what or does she want them in school so they can’t.
As a regular viewer of Question Time in Parliament, I’ve noticed a recent increasing tendency for the PM to be hysterical and performative in answering – and the ‘substance’ of his answers to – questions.
Conversely, Chris Hipkins remains cool, calm and collected in his asking the questions.
From this telling observation, it’s becoming clear who shows more genuine leadership skills.
“It’s a shame, really. I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients, or kids in education and parents being mucked around,” he said.
The hypocrisy is galling. It is not as if ideology is not driving most of his CoC government’s policy direction despite evidence to the contrary – it’s not about what is right it is about what we believe in – that being neoliberal
No Bob people are getting sick of Luxon and the CoC, when someone is earning the minimum wage and their rent is five or six hundred a week, how are they supposed to survive.
My sisters rent for a three-bedroom modest house in Hamilton is $650 a week, the owner of the house said she can’t afford to pay the mortgage and has gone to Australia and my sisters rent pays her mortgage.
Then add the price of food, power, petrol, transport to work, GP costs, clothing allowance and wow! that does not leave much for many to live on now does it.
Luxon blaming the Unions exhibits why he is NZ’s very worst PM to date. He SIMPLY doesn’t get it – he is unable to grasp the basic fundamentals and expectations of a leader. He is thick, arrogant, egotistical, weak and certainly not clever in any way. He is a cardboard cut-out PM. So to all those sprouting, “No definitely not a Left goverment”, surely you are not deluding yourselves into thinking this CoC, even with a change of leader [and please not Bishop-on-Tantrum] can be successful. This move would be advocating more of the same failed CR&P we are currently and painfully enduring? It would also make you culpable enablers and thickos! So you have a choice, continue to bury your heads in the sand, in which case NZ will continue down the gurgler, or help get rid of this current scourge. Can you seriously not see the links between the donations=bribery that have forced this Coc to give backhanders to their donors at the expense of health, housing, education and the general well-being of all NZ citizens? Time for a monumental BRAIN RESET!!!
Another example why the economy is tanking. People just aren’t earning enough to spend.
It’s hilarious to argue the merits of why National is sliding in the polls.
I think Weakling Luxon is near to the end of his time of being a mostly Missing In Action Part-time prime minister.
Looking at his eyes he now look like he is dead “From the Head down”.
But in order to appear strong(or whatever)he is now lashing out at others eg Workers(the Bottom Feeders as he calls us) and Unions. Maybe he is realising he has NO CONTROL and is throwing his toys out of the crib in one of his Temper Tantrums.
To put it simply Luxon has NO/ZERO interest in New Zealand and New Zealanders.
He is after all prime minister on Paper Only because he shows his poor leadership by allowing Peters and Seymour to Run Amok He is waiting for an ill-deserved knighthood. Lets hope to goodness he never gets one because he Just Doesn’t Merit One.
What the Entitled One would say to you is, wealth-induced myopia allows Uncle Fester to see only what he wants to see.
No inconvenient truth is allowed in his sacred sorted white world.
He is a complete wanker. I first discovered this while attempting to work with him at AirNZ while I was in a union executive role. A total jerk unhinged from reality.
I hope he helps cause this bunch of CoCs to crash and burn in the next election. That would be satisfying AF.
Luxon really is unusually stupid, even for a Gnat
You deliver 5.7% cost of living increases, with power prices up 11%, and folk are going to feel it. You try to fob them off with some penny ante nonsense pay increase and they will strike – and they would strike just as hard under Labour.
That they do so with particular satisfaction under a scrofulous turd like Luxon is really neither here nor there.
Luxon really is unusually stupid, even for a Gnat
You deliver 5.7% cost of living increases, with power prices up 11%, and folk are going to feel it. You try to fob them off with some penny ante nonsense pay increase and they will strike – and they would strike just as hard under Labour.
That they do so with particular satisfaction under a scrofulous turd like Luxon is really neither here nor there.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360856615/price-bread-nearly-50-food-and-flights-costs-climb-again-stats-nz-figures-show
People aren’t dumb, they’ve seen what this monstrosity of a government has done. Lets be clear if the people get out and vote the left bloc win. Unfortunately when you deliver a cost of living crisis and increases on power prices and increases on pretty much everything, those increased prices never drop even with a change of government. The only thing Labour can do is stop the blood letting and raise wages to match inflation. That way people can afford to live. The carnage the National CoC has brought and add in their low wage economy means everyone other than the rich and sorted are struggling. National have no interest in raising wages to meet the ever increasing cost of living crisis. When they are cutting left right and center and food, power and everything else is increasing you can see why they will be regarded as the worst government in history Not only that, it is the smugness and self-righteousness of their MP’s with the protection of their high salaries that make these people appalling human beings. Hardly surprising the like of Peter’s is targeted, such is his arrogance. Willis will be gone altogether thankfully next election if the people vote.
This coalition is paving the way to introduce legislation to ban public service workers to be able to strike with their constant attacks on nurses,doctors and teachers. They are also refusing to meet with union leaders especially that little jumped up van Velden so watch this space
Van Velden, another smug, arrogant bitch!
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