CTU to Play Race Card at Election Time
Unions stirring up racial tensions yet again.
From Waatea News
The Council of Trade Unions is picking Maori and workers' rights as issues for this year's election.
The organisation has been in Rotorua looking at its political strategy and the future of the labour movement.
Sharon Clair, the CTU's Maori vice president, says the cornerstones of the strategy are protecting and enhancing workers' rights, stronger public services, and higher wages.
The role of Maori in the workplace is also important.
“We are the ones who are at the bottom of the rung, particularly Maori women, when it comes to income, and skill and qualification, and this is all of course a continuation of colonialism and the impact of that upon us in our development,” Ms Clair says.
From Waatea News
The Council of Trade Unions is picking Maori and workers' rights as issues for this year's election.
The organisation has been in Rotorua looking at its political strategy and the future of the labour movement.
Sharon Clair, the CTU's Maori vice president, says the cornerstones of the strategy are protecting and enhancing workers' rights, stronger public services, and higher wages.
The role of Maori in the workplace is also important.
“We are the ones who are at the bottom of the rung, particularly Maori women, when it comes to income, and skill and qualification, and this is all of course a continuation of colonialism and the impact of that upon us in our development,” Ms Clair says.
posted by Trevor Loudon at
2/21/2008 07:54:00 PM
5 Comments:
looks like trev's using the race card too, guess which side he is on...
I'm on two sides anon-mine and New Zealands's.
Could the low income be related to the low skills and qualifications rather than the race or sex?
Exactly anon (the 2nd one).
EXOCET
or land theft and foreign investment and control of resources in new zealand?
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