Supporting aged care staff
At lunchtime today I joined a demo in the Octagon where members of the Service and Food Workers Union and the Nurses Organization were building awareness of their "Fair Share for Aged Care" campaign.

Workers in the aged care sector in New Zealand are not getting a good deal. It's wrong that the workers who do this vital job of looking after our older people get paid crummy wages. It's a reflection of the society we live after years of right-wing economic policies which do not have the best interest of working people at heart.

You can read about and support the campaign at their website Fair Share for Aged Care

The Alliance has strong policies to boost the minimum wage and protect workers from contracting out and casualization when these are being used to attack wages and conditions.
- posted by Victor @ 7:31 PM