Posts Tagged ‘equity’

equity under National

February 21, 2009 – 5:42 pm

The Government has axed two investigations aimed at improving the pay of women as it tries to save money by controlling public sector salaries.

... State Services Minister Tony Ryall said the investigations would "generate an additional form of remuneration pressure that is unaffordable in the current economic and fiscal environment".

I can't see how this National government is different from the one 30 years ago : socialism for the rich, and capitalism and discrimination for the poor. If bail out is a valid and effective way to save economy (which I don't necessarily agree), bailing out ordinary people should be as important as bailing out big businesses. Yes business needs to be saved but they can only prosper if there's a market for their products.

This is the same reason as why we need a minimum wage - far right people treat workers like "goods", and apply the basic supply-demand model to human being. In a purely economic sense that's perfectly true, and I can claim that if businesses only pay its workers five cent an hour, we will then have a nice 100% employment rate, but will that do any good to either businesses or workers?

Not to mention this is denying women equal opportunities as their male counterparts had.

There must be a balance, John Key was campaigned as a centrist and I hope he keeps it that way, otherwise honeymoon could soon end with a backlash as the economy deterioates in the coming years.