Helen Kelly gave the “challenge” speech on Saturday to the Labour Women’s Leadership Conference. Love this :
Paula Bennett should go visit the Lane Walker Rudkin workers who’ve been made redundant after years of working for their employer and tell them that the dream is over.
Great stuff - although Joan Kirner had some pearlers as well.
Grrrr Bennett Grrrrrr
So it’s all Bennetts fault that the factory shut down & the staff lost their jobs (which I am truly sorry about).
@Robb
They are unemployed now so according to Bennett they are living the dream and she is saying the dream is over, the nice easy existence on the benefit is over, and they can no longer bludge off the NZ public because this is how NZers treat one another now. Just listen to talk back radio. Once you loose your job you are a bludger and scum of NZ society. You seem to become one over night. I think that is where the comment is coming from.
@All NZers. If you hear that someone is one the Dole what is the first thing that comes to your mind? If you hear someone is on the DPB what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
I have a friend that has just lost her job and had to apply for the DPB. I challenge NZ to change their sterotypes but I do feel its now too engrained.
No one dares comment on anything racial but its okay to say or write degrading things about these groups of people without knowing their situation. Do you really think that that is right?
@ A Mother – thanks for challenging people on this. This is pure dog whistle politics from Bennett – the bottom line is where are the jobs?
@Darien Fenton
At the moment after looking in the paper there are part time jobs, working your own hours, good money but not any I would take or anyone I know. They are in escort agencies. While I don’t think WINZ will insist we take them (I hope not anyway) I do worry that you have to apply for a certain number of jobs and there are not jobs there, so are they going to blindly cut benefits if we haven’t applied for a certain number? How is this going to work. Okay not me as my children are 3 and under, but others out there.
@Spud. I know you don’t. More getting at the people on other blogs. Must stop reading them. I’m too sensitive.
@ A Mother – another good question for PB!
AND will employers be thrilled at twice the number turning up to their job interviews to satisfy WINZ internal targets… Having to go through 200 applicants is a waste of time and money for employers.
@Tracey
That is happening already.
Employers don’t even bother to answer applications, now they have the total power. You’re just left to wonder and hope. Are employers expected to give the applicant a bit of paper saying they’ve applied, because WINZ needs proof? In that case employers won’t be happy.
Give the baby to the father and then watch a change in policy.
At Jum.
I would apply by fax or email. That way you could print out a copy of the sent email and show them. That is how I would do it anyway.
Next National MP’s and the public will say solo parents should move to another location to find work if they can’t find a suitable job where they live!