Um I don’t remember John Key making these comments when Telstra Clear decided to send 48 jobs from Kapiti to a Philippine Call Centre! And now another 70 jobs from the Auckland call centre are under threat.
Or when there was talk about Telecom outsourcing and offshoring several thousand jobs (NB Telecom has since advised me those plans are “on hold” for now). Steven Joyce is on record as sayign the government has no responsibility for decisions made by a private company on outsourcing.
What’s changed? John Key is reading the political wind. Well I’m glad he’s sticking up for Kiwi jobs. Maybe he could announce support for the Kiwi Jobs Bill which aims to put in place a procurement policy to maximise opportunities for local businesses when tendering for large government projects.
Prime Minister John Key says companies choosing to send their call centres to other parts of the world “are making the wrong choice”.
He wants other New Zealand companies to take note of Canon’s new call centre on the Shore.
Mr Key told the North Shore Times it is a positive move to open call centres in New Zealand because it creates employment for people of different age groups and ethnicities.
I think one potential unintended outcome of proposed employment law and welfare changes is a greatly increased fear of unemployment – and workers who are insecure about their jobs will probably be more bolshie about hanging on to their jobs. The French most certainly feel that way.
Weather vein
or Weather vain
Interesting development with the US union chap cancelling his trip…
Maybe John Key read the same article I did a few days ago which stated that a comphrensive study showed that it doesn’t really matter how a party campaign goes, what matters is the increase (or otherwise) in people’s economic situation in the year preceeding the election…
Flip….. and Flop…
More here.
To cut a long story short, all diplomatic avenues have been exhausted.
Darn
At least I now know how to spell weather vain, Chippie taught me how to spell tyres 
Actually Spud it is ‘weather vane’, and these days ‘tires’ is also quite acceptable for ‘tyres’. The origin is from ‘tie’ which tied the wheel together. In fact a train wheel still has a tire in England, whereas the rubber things on cars and trucks are spelled tyre as a distinguishing mark.
Chippie? Sounds a bit familiar, Spud. As an ‘insider’ – what gives with the breaking news about a leadership challenge???
B.H. they’re not going to get English to replace Key are they???!
@Richard – thanks for the info
@BH – Yeah, this is the trouble with this blog and cyberspace you do have the illusion of familiarity. Not good.
@Loota – Oh, yes let’s relive the 2002 general election
He’d better watch his back though, that Aaron Gilmore is looking pretty popular
see post above Trevor
Having read the Kiwi Jobs Bill I’m left with the impression that (if it was passed) some people are going to get paid for doing some research that may lead to a policy report that may lead to implementation of policy. That implementation may perform a lip service to the goal of the policy, but most likely will end up similar to the GETS service, where if you didn’t help write the RFP there’s no point responding to it.
The only clare beneficiaries will be the members appointed to the ‘Kiwi Jobs Commission’, and such staff as may be employed (and probably the landlord who rents out the office space for it).
In other words, another way to inflate the pubic service with no likely positive outcome.
There is still a differences between saying something and doing something.
Saying something is often enough to make the gullible feel OK.
If he actually does something them looking closely at what is done may reveal other agendas.
The banker is unlikely to change his spots.
Sorry spud, was doing a play on words about JK’s vanity
Man I’ve really gotta learn how to spell