NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes Green Party commitment to fairness
Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 9:40 am Press Release: NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes Green Party commitment to fairness
for working Kiwis
September 2nd 2014
NZEI Te Riu Roa
has welcomed the Green Party's commitment to making work
fairer and more equitable, saying it would also result in
tangible benefits for children and their learning.
NZEI Te
Riu Roa President Judith Nowotarski says the pledge to
increase the minimum wage, implement pay equity, introduce a
living wage for public sector workers, outlaw "zero hours"
contracts and dump the 90 day "fire at will" legislation
would immediately benefit New Zealanders.
"Committing to
lifting the minimum wage and introducing the Living Wage in
the state sector will be particularly welcomed by special
education support workers and school support staff because
of their low pay and job insecurity," she says.
"Overall,
the Greens' policy could also bring tangible benefits to
thousands of New Zealand children currently living in
poverty, even though their parents are working. Lifting
inadequate family incomes is an essential step in
addressing child poverty - and therefore increasing
children's opportunities to succeed educationally."
NZEI Te Riu Roa members work in every community in New Zealand, leading and advocating for quality public education.
We are the 50,000 principals, teachers and support staff who work in primary, area and secondary schools as well as early childhood centres, special education and school advisory services. We come together as NZEI Te Riu Roa - New Zealand's largest education union, a Treaty based organisation and a powerful advocate for quality public education.
We have the most important job in New Zealand - educating for the future.
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