Economic Bulletin

Building a Better Future, inflation and wages.

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Jeremiah Boniface - Economic Bulletin

Welcome to the October edition of the EconoLex — NZCTUs Economic Bulletin. Firstly, welcome to Jack Foster who has joined the CTU this month, and has contributed to the production of this edition. The CTU launched its Building a Better Future consultation document this month. This is our view of an alternative approach to economic… Read more »

Future of Work, Good Work & Low Wages

Posted on July 7, 2022 by Jeremiah Boniface - Economic Bulletin

Welcome to the CTU’s monthly Economic Bulletin, it’s hard to believe we’re halfway through the year already! Highlights of this bulletin include a rundown on the Future of Work programme, our role in the tripartite forum, and where you can access regular updates on that work including just transitions and good work. We also delve… Read more »

Budgets, Child Poverty & Cost of Living

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Jeremiah Boniface - Economic Bulletin

Highlights of this month’s Economic Bulletin include the current inflation and cost of living crisis and the latest child poverty statistics, alongside an update of the regular economic indicators and forecasts. We’re also looking forward to the Government’s 2022 Budget being announced in early May. Over the last few weeks, the CTU has consulted with… Read more »

Monthly Economic Bulletin – March 2022

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Jeremiah Boniface - Economic Bulletin

Introduction from Craig Renney Greetings to one and all to this new economic bulletin from the CTU. This report has been brought to you by Diana Russell, Tyson Kingi and I at the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions. Should you have any questions about the data, or any requests for more information, please just… Read more »

Labour, Houses, and the Reserve Bank

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Rob Egan - Economic Bulletin

What a wild ride the last year has been. I look back to my first Bulletin in January – I had NO IDEA – and that wasn’t just that I was coming out of tax and in to labour market things. It is trite to say that Covid has changed everything but in some ways,… Read more »

The Minimum Wage (and Gender Wage Gap)

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Rob Egan - Economic Bulletin, Wages

Hope you all enjoyed Labour Day this week – brought to you by the union movement. This month’s Economic Bulletin – a discussion of the minimum wage based on the recent CTU submission to the Government. It also includes some updated gender and ethnic wage gap graphs and finds the reduction in female employment, I… Read more »

Taxing times

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Rob Egan - Economic Bulletin

For an election period we are, more than ever, spoilt for tax content Applying a tax policy lens – this means: Labour and the Green Party want to make personal taxation more progressive; National and ACT want to reduce or eliminate fiscal drag – more on that later – while National also want to restore… Read more »

A She- cession?

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Rob Egan - Economic Bulletin, Equal Pay

In this Bulletin I attempt to unpick the Labour Market Statistics that came out on the 5th August 20 for the June 20 quarter.

Economic Bulletin – The Pay Equity Edition

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Rob Egan - Economic Bulletin, Equal Pay

Last week in the dead of night – just before midnight on Thursday – the Government passed the Equal Pay Amendment Act. This Act set out to improve the process for women in occupations that have been economically disadvantaged compared to work of equal value done by men.

Budget 2020 – Rebuilding Together?

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Rob Egan - Economic Bulletin

Will we have an equitable post – Covid-19 future? Because we certainly didn’t have an equitable pre-Covid past. And this was heavily acknowledged by Grant Robertson in his pre-Budget address. His concerns of child poverty, expensive housing, people working hard and not getting ahead, rising emissions and dirty waterways are also the concerns of the… Read more »