New Zealand Labour

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🚨 Nearly a quarter of the National Government’s FamilyBoost spend has gone to administration — not to families to help with childcare.

#BREAKING: The National Government should be ashamed of themselves. They’re winding back years of pay equity progress at the expense of pay rises for women and hardworking Kiwis — our teachers, care and support workers.

#BREAKING: National admitted it: more cuts are coming. Labour’s ready to fight back. 🔗👇

Will the Government’s ferries announcement today sink or swim? 👀⛴️🌊

If the pilot is going well — what is the Minister hiding? Karen Chhour needs to front up and shed some light on the state of her boot camps experiment.

The Director-General of Health has gone, the Director of Public Health stepped down, the Health New Zealand board was sacked and the Health New Zealand Chief Executive resigned. As the crisis deepens, so does the toll on our health system.

The Government has no plan to support workers as 230 more jobs are lost today with the closure of the Kinleith paper mill. This is devastating news for the whole community and the many families who rely on the paper mill for income.

Unemployment reaches 5.1%. Here’s what this means: 👇 📈 Highest in four years 👎 33,000 more Kiwis unemployed in just the past year 🆙 Māori unemployment reaches 9.7% 🧮 1 in 10 Pacific people unemployed 🔙 Sharpest recession, excluding COVID-19, in 30 years