Labour to get New Zealand building and Kiwis back to work
With unemployment at an 11-year high, and construction businesses struggling, Labour will get building projects underway and more Kiwis back on the tools.
βLabour will build the infrastructure New Zealand needs, create jobs and ensure the benefits return to local businesses and communities,β Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said.
βRight now, homes need building, schools need improving and hospitals need fixing. We can do all three while creating good jobs for Kiwis.
βWhen the Government funds a building project, the benefits go well beyond the worksite. Builders hire tradies, tradies buy materials, suppliers get more orders, apprentices get hours and local businesses benefit from workers spending in their communities.
βLabour will use government investment to get essential work underway and give businesses the certainty they need to keep people in work,β Chris Hipkins said.
Labour will deliver:
- More social housing β at least 6,000 additional social housing places over four years.
- School improvements at more than 2,000 state schools and integrated schools across New Zealand, with work for local firms and businesses.
- Hospital improvements tackling long-overdue repairs so hospitals are safe, reliable and fit for patients and staff.
- Apprenticeship Boost expansion and MΔori Trades Training to support more people into skilled jobs and qualifications in the trades.
βUnemployment under National is at an 11-year high. We need to get Kiwis back to work. That means building homes, fixing schools and repairing hospitals, not sitting on our hands,β Labour jobs and incomes spokesperson Ginny Andersen said.
βLabour wants local businesses winning work and communities benefiting from investment in their future.
βNew Zealand has a backlog of work that needs doing. Homes need building, schools need improving and hospitals need fixing.
βLabour will get that work underway while creating opportunities for Kiwis to get back into work and businesses to win new contracts.
βThis is about putting government investment to work β improving public infrastructure, supporting local businesses and giving the construction sector greater certainty,β Ginny Andersen said.
Labour is ‘committed’ to getting Kiwis back to work, more social housing, improvements to Schools and Hospitals and Apprenticeship shemes. We all should by now know that Hipkins is one of the few ‘honest’ politicians in NZ! If you don’t then you haven’t been paying attention. Unemployment under National is at an 11yr high and would be worse if so many hadn’t fled! I quote: βWhen the Government funds a building project, the benefits go well beyond the worksite. Builders hire tradies, tradies buy materials, suppliers get more orders, apprentices get hours and local businesses benefit from workers spending in their communities.β Seriously this has got to be a huge improvement on the status quo! Wake up Kiwi voters before it’s too late. NZ can’t survive another 3 mediocre years of corruption, false promises, lies, covert policy making, and downright arrogance!