Labour leadership: who is promising what
Buy back SOEs? Bring back the Man Ban? Bankroll a second cable to the US? Here's a scorecard of Cunliffe, Robertson and Jones' promises. The single most destructive policy:
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The three Labour leadership contenders are making so many promises, that I’ve done this little table below for easy reference. Please, please let me know if there are any pledges I have missed. I will keep updating this.
Cunliffe’s pledge to extend Part 6A to all workers takes the prize for the most destructive policy.
Part 6A is the part which states that if a company wins a contract off another company, they have to employ all the staff of the other company.
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At present, Part 6A only applies to industries such as catering, cleaning, orderly and laundry. Cunliffe’s pledge would massively expand this.Say you work for a copy centre, and you lose a major contract to a competitor. The winning copy centre has to hire your staff!In theory it would apply to law firms also. Say a law firm loses a major client to another law firm.
All the lawyers who worked for that client at the old firm, would have to be hired by the new firm!It would in fact destroy competition, mergers and acquisitions in New Zealand.
It is bad enough we have Part 6A for some industries, but to apply it to all workers is indeed a great leap backwards. The unions though will love it. Getting 20% of the vote in the leadership contests has given them power beyond their wildest dreams.
UPDATE: Have added on Grant’s pledge to have taxpayers fund a second fibre cable to the United States.
UPDATE2: Cunliffe also promising a Pacifica TV channel
UPDATE3: Robertson on Te Karere said he wants Treaty settlement target shifted from 2014 to 2020 and the Police Commission to apologise to Tuhoe.
UPDATE4: Cunlife promised in a speech he would introduce national awards or “industry standard agreements” within 100 days of an election.
David Farrar
Tue, 03 Sep 2013
Tue, 03 Sep 2013
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Labour leadership: who is promising what
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