Public patience with no-jobs government wearing thin
Public patience with no-jobs government wearing
thin
The government’s lack of any plan
for jobs has been laid bare this morning, FIRST Union said
today.
A Fairfax
poll out this morning listed job creation and
unemployment as the top issue facing the
country.
Unemployment is at a record high of
7.3 per cent, or 175,000 people, and the public are
tiring of the government’s weak response of leaving it to
the market, FIRST Union General Secretary Robert Reid
said.
“National’s approach of sitting back and
hoping for the best and has failed New Zealand firms and
workers,” he said.
“Governments do have
options.”
“Better use of government
procurement to support local jobs, temporary Job Support
Schemes like those used at the peak of the recession brought
back for sectors facing significant redundancies, and a more
responsive approach to monetary policy to protect jobs in
the export sector would all help.”
“Making sure
that its citizens have access to decent work and an income
is a basic duty of any government.”
“Instead,
our government is asleep at the wheel on jobs,” Robert
Reid
said.
ENDS