By signing Free Trade deal with India, Labour gift Winston another 5%
When Labour refused to de-escalate the Dumb Lives Matter protest on Parliament’s lawns, I said at the time that the Left had permanently lost 5% of the vote.
What no one on the Left wanted to recognise was that half of those at that protest voted Greens or Labour.
Allowing Mallard to play the bullshit games he did and livestream it to the nation manufactured a grievance that has never healed.
Labour are about to do the same again by voting for the India Free Trade deal.
I know a 40 year old pakeha woman who is a cleaner.
She has been told by her boss that contracts are being cut back because migrants are under cutting their prices and she is losing work.
She says she is voting for Winston because he’ll stop the Indians coming.
Thew reality is that for many domestic working class people, mass immigration puts direct threat to their livelihoods.
I have worked in the past preparing cases against Kiwis who exploit migrant workers.
It might sau the student can only work 20 hours, but the bottle owner who holds their passport and green lights their stay works them 50 hours a week!
NZ is a low wage addicted economy and we exploit migrant workers every single day of the week.
We have 95 Labour Inspectors vs 235,000 temporary migrant workers.
There is no way near the number of labour Inspectorates to police the exploitation of migrants.
There is an easy way for Labour and the Left to hear and protect the concerns of domestic workers.
Enrol every single migrant worker coming into NZ automatically and universally into a migrant workers Union to ensure their conditions and pay are the same for domestic workers.
NZ is a liberal progressive democracy, its promise is the intrinsic civil liberty respect for you as an individual, that you enjoy the full reach of your agency and that you can look into the face of your child and know they will get a better deal than you did.
It is offensive and obscene that migrant workers are exploited the way they are and if we are true to them being Kiwis, we must protect them with universal union membership!
That way domestic working class will welcome their migrant brothers and sisters, not be resentful of them.
There is a way to disarm NZ Firsts anti-migrant position, but it demands we recognise the legitimate fears the domestic working classes have from mass immigration policies.
Labour is silent on these issues.
Winston will back peddle on this as he did on foreign ownership of property .During the election he said NZF would not support that but here we are 2 years later and they now support that move to allow them to buy a house or what ever .In 1994 he said he would halt the asian invasion but here we are today getting ready to allow more to come as so called students .Unemployment of the real work force will rise as these so called students take kiwi jobs and work for under the table low pay rates .More poverty coming to a place near you
The owner of this blog continually goes on about our Chinese ‘economic overlords’ and the beef to diversify trade away from China. This FTA with India is one way to do this.
Anti exploitation laws and enforcement needs to be toughened up.
What would exploiters fear most?
If they are “new NZ’s”, exploiting people from the country of their birth, they should know if caught they will be deported, and all assets of crime seized.
If it is a NZ born exploiter they should know they will be jailed and that it will be a long sentence and all assets of crime seized.
This would level the power play between the exploiter and the exploited. Currently the exploiter is the one who normally holds deportation over the head of the exploited.
None of this addresses the current issue of NACT putting uncapped students numbers into the NZ/India FTA though.
With ‘most favoured nation’ clauses this will likely also open the doors to current and future FTA’s with other countries wanting the right to the same unlimited student numbers written into their agreements
This could cause an avalanche of overseas students with the right to work “legally” 20 hours per week putting huge demands on our limited housing and jobs, distressed public services and rising cost of living.
The issue here is a large populous country effectively writing its own immigration policy into the FTA which other countries will follow, and NZ parliament rubber stamping it.
The government has tried to keep this quiet, and NZ’s because of weak journalism and a blasé Labour and Greens are asleep to it.
I am sure Labour will make the necessary checks to see what exactly is being offered as far as immigration goes. And if the deal needs some minor changes, they will need to pursue that with National who are desperate to get this deal over the line and may have offered up too much.
I am sure Labour they make the necessary checks to see what exactly is being offered as far as immigration geos. And if the deal needs some minor changes, they will need to pursue that with National who are desperate to get this deal over the line and may have offered up too much.
If Labour supports Luxon’s “incredible” FTA agreement with India it MUST be upon ‘certain conditions’ being met – ie [Enrolling every single migrant worker coming into NZ automatically and universally into a migrant workers Union to ensure their conditions and pay are the same as for domestic workers]. Are you listening Hipkins et al??? To do anything less is to lose more homegrown NZ workers their jobs causing more homelessness and despair. Don’t even think about not forming this Union!!! Already there is an enormous MESS to clean up after the continuous knee-jerking, badly researched, myriad of ‘so-called’ policies etc. from this CoC that need to be dealt with. It will take lots of money and time. So Left, get this right along with the necessary taxes to fix this CoC’s economic vandalism. WE DON’T WANT or NEED MORE IMMIGRANTS!
30 percent of children starting school now are not toilet trained or able to eat by themselves.In NZ there are 30 percent of the population who are dead wood are poor parents and providers. .We need immigrants who work hard to cover those that will not
You are part of the dead wood with a comment like that. But then again, you’re an immigrant so you can’t think critically.