Do as I say - not as I do
Posted by: PPTAweb
on 28, Oct, 2009
Key issues pay-cut challenge to teachers - Jase writes that
Key and the other MP’s should in turn be challenged to take a pay-cut to support the cleaners, or those workers in parliament who lost the redundancy in their first year of employment clause (as mentioned by Helen Kelly in her address to the NZCTU Conference)…
Both CTU and NZEI responded to Key - a quote from the CTU response follows
Comments by the Prime Minister to the CTU conference this week that teachers should trade off their own pay rises to fund fair pay rates for low paid school support staff were provocative and a cynical attempt to shift blame ....
Finally we note the findings of the Auditor General as reported in the NZ Herald
Prime Minister John Key's new policy of giving a lump sum to ministers for accommodation meant the question of whether a Minister has a personal financial interest in a property would no longer be relevant
