Labour’s plan to boost skills development refreshing
The future of work needs to be one where working people have good, satisfying jobs with decent incomes, and Labour’s announcements today on boosting skills are welcome, the CTU said today.
Andrew Little today announced that a Labour-led government would ensure all schools have dedicated careers advisory staff, and that major government procurement projects would have apprenticeship requirements.
“Both of these moves are sensible and much needed. Improving access to skills and career development is a tangible way to improve the lives of working Kiwis”, CTU Secretary Sam Huggard said.
“Currently, not all secondary students have access to careers advisors. Students and their parents will welcome the move to ensure this is available to everyone.”
Sam Huggard said that Government has significant purchasing power through its procurement, and significant reform was needed in this area to better support local jobs and industries.
“Working people in union have been calling for apprenticeship requirements for some time – this needs to be part of the government procurement mix, alongside beefed up whole-of-life economic analysis and Australian-style Industry Participation Plans.”
A necessary alternative to train up our own kids instead of letting foreign workers be imported willy-nilly. But do we need to always “Australian style”? Let’s put it in our own words.
Yes this is a good policy but how come the press didn’t release this policy Today as I never heard anything???
The opposition are loosing the election if they don’t get their policies out there for everyone to hear as all we have now is a flood of Key this and key that or National is doing this and not that.
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