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  • Economic Bulletin 129 - New Zealand doesn't have to be a low wage country
    1 Nov 2011 - 09:37

    October 2011

    The political parties now have most of their employment relations policies out. These policies have great importance for New Zealand’s wage levels, and already there are the predictable allegations by business that Labour’s policies will lead to unaffordable wage demands. Yet it is inescapable that National’s policies which weaken collective bargaining will mean lower wages. This commentary shows that higher wages are affordable, even with current economic output and growth rates. And of course wages could be higher yet, if productivity increased faster – and the results of that were fairly shared with wage and salary earners.

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  • CTU Minimum Wage Submission 2011
    16 Oct 2011 - 09:41
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  • Proportion of Income Spent on GST by decile
    1 Apr 2010 - 09:35
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  • CTU Economic Bulletin No. 111 - GST, the cost of living and wages
    1 Apr 2010 - 09:18

    March 2010

    Many people will be thinking about the effect of GST on the cost of living.

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  • CTU Minimum Wage Submission 2009
    30 Oct 2009 - 15:43
    The CTU's submission to the 2009 Minimum Wage review.
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  • Wages rises still well behind inflation
    1 Nov 2011 - 13:40

    “The 2.0 percent increase in the Labour Cost Index for the year to September means that wages are still falling behind price increases”, says CTU Economist, Bill Rosenberg. Prices increased 4.6 percent in the same period, including about 2.1 percent due to the GST increase.

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  • Facts on the wage comparison with Australia
    11 Apr 2011 - 14:55

    The Prime Minister has on several occasions, including TVNZ's Breakfast this morning asserted that the after-tax average wage has gone up 16 percent since October 2008 because of tax cuts, and that as a result New Zealand’s after tax average wage has risen faster than Australia’s. 

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  • Government Promotes Low Wage Vision
    9 Apr 2011 - 09:41

    The CTU has strongly criticised comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bill English that New Zealand has a competitive advantage in attracting overseas investment because our wages are 30 percent cheaper than in Australia.

    Peter Conway, CTU Secretary said ‘this contrasts strongly with the stated aim of Government to close the wage gap with Australia”.

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  • Aussies steal another march on Kiwis 11.6.10
    11 Jun 2010 - 09:57

    The Fair Work Australia’s specialist Minimum Wages Panel last week lifted their minimum wage to $15 an hour from 1 July. About 1.4 million Australian workers are affected by the decision, including about 100,000 who earn the National Minimum Wage.

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  • Big inflation pressures yet to come – CTU 20.4.10
    20 Apr 2010 - 12:23

    The CTU says that major inflation pressures on working people are yet to come.

    However a 2 percent increase in the cost of living – which is an unchanged annual figure – still highlights the situation of those who have not had any increase in income over the past year.

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