GST increase would hit low income families hard
CTU media release Any increase in GST, as being floated by the Tax Working Group, would hit low income families and workers hard, said Council of Trade Unions Economist Bill Rosenberg. The CTU would...
View ArticleGST, the cost of living and wages
CTU policy director Bill Rosenberg says that it is still not clear how workers will be compensated“ for an increase in GST. “We don’t know how changes to Working for Families, income tax cuts, or other...
View ArticleTax: A budget preview
Below is a paper CTU secretary Peter Conway presented to the NZ Fabian Society. It is asking the question about whether next Thursday we will see a ‘tax switch’ or a ‘tax swindle’. In particular Mr...
View ArticleGovernment playing with numbers over wage growth
Council of Trade Unions media release 20 August 2010 The Government is conveniently playing with numbers in its statement that after tax the average weekly wage only increased 3 per cent between 1999...
View ArticleInterest-free student loans a victim of the quake?
On Tuesday finance minister, Bill English said that the government would undertake a major review of government spending and debt levels as part of its response to the Christchurch earthquake. He...
View ArticleGovernment out of touch with New Zealand families – CTU Media Release
19 May 2011 Today’s Budget should have been about jobs and the future. Instead it was about cuts to family incomes, privatisation and cutting government services. Helen Kelly, President of the CTU said...
View ArticleSubmission on Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid...
Submission of the Tertiary Education Union to the Government Administration Select Committee on the “Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill” 5 October 2012 For...
View ArticleWomen’s Fiesta focuses on child poverty
“By 1999 child poverty among those left out — those on welfare benefits – was terrible, and the pressures on foodbanks and budgeting and other social services continued a relentless upward drift.”...
View ArticleGST increase would hit low income families hard
CTU media release Any increase in GST, as being floated by the Tax Working Group, would hit low income families and workers hard, said Council of Trade Unions Economist Bill Rosenberg. The CTU would...
View ArticleGST, the cost of living and wages
CTU policy director Bill Rosenberg says that it is still not clear how workers will be compensated" for an increase in GST. "We don't know how changes to Working for Families, income tax cuts, or other...
View ArticleTax: A budget preview
Below is a paper CTU secretary Peter Conway presented to the NZ Fabian Society. It is asking the question about whether next Thursday we will see a ‘tax switch’ or a ‘tax swindle’. In particular Mr...
View ArticleLift wages to solve inequality says Rosenberg
Wages and salaries are a vital part of the picture of income inequality in New Zealand because so many people depend on them says CTU economist Bill Rosenberg. For households with at least one member...
View ArticleDoing something about low incomes: wages and benefits
The Government is putting poverty on the political agenda despite denying that there was a problem during the election campaign, says CTU economist Bill Rosenberg. He says it is difficult to see how...
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