Opportunities Party Auckland Central Candidate Mika responds
to Labour Party bringing in unpaid overseas
students.
Labour has kids flying here at their own
expense? Where are the youth for Labour? This weekend,
dozens of NZ youth descend upon Mika’s The Opportunities
Party Auckland Campaign headquarters to talk about the real
challenges they face as young New Zealanders.
Students as
"slave labour" is exactly why Mika started the Mika Haka
Foundation. Young people are often paid badly, or worse, not
at all.
Mika says, “We must start supporting young
people immediately. I have been paying and supporting Kiwi
kids for over two decades. This year, let us all
differentiate between an opportunity that gets young people
on TOP, and slave labour.”
Mika’s Influencer/Emerging
Leader programmes, where young NZers under 25 are paid and
rewarded, has not only been successful, but also government
evaluated for its effectiveness. Mika will be an integral
part of The Opportunities Party’s major youth development
policy, to be announced next month.
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