A Living Wage that enables dignity and participation

The Living Wage Aotearoa NZ campaign is under way. A report was published last December that defined a “living wage” as the income necessary to provide workers and their families with the basic necessities of life. It would enable workers to live with dignity and to participate as active citizens in society. It has been suggested that workers paid through publicly-supported funds should earn wages above the poverty level and that private contractors supplying such organisations pay their workers a “living wage”.

The guest In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Face Television this week is a spokesperson for the campaign, Annie Newman.

"In Conversation with Noel Cheer", Face Television, Monday May 13th at 7:00pm, repeated on Tuesday May 14th at 12 noon.

Face Television, the home of public broadcasting, is found on Sky Television Channel 83 and can also be received in the Auckland region on UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52. It is also live-streamed on www.ecasttv.co.nz. The website www.facetv.co.nz carries programme schedules. Some recent episodes of In Conversation can be viewed at www.youtube.com/user/NoelCheer

"In Conversation with Noel Cheer" receives funding from New Zealand on Air. This has enabled us to introduce viewers to over 260 New Zealanders on Air (as well as visitors to New Zealand) during more than six years of unbroken weekly public-interest broadcasting.

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