Living Wage campaign

WILLIAM BROCKWAY YOUTH DELEGATE WELLINGTON

Hi Members,

Some of you may know about the living wage movement. This awesome movement is ensuring more and more workers are getting paid the more dignified living wage rather than the abysmal minimum wage.

Some of the campaigning we have been doing recently has involved a stall at the Newtown festival, public forums with council candidates and sitting councillors and recently a gathering on the Victoria University campus.

The cleaners at Victoria University are not paid a living wage, some struggling with bills and putting food on the table. The movement organized a gathering in the court yard on campus to inform students about the ongoing issues that management seem to brush aside.

With the new living rate of $26 an hour being announced it really shows the minimum wage of $22.70 an hour just isn’t enough for workers anymore. The cost of living is rising, the cost of the workers time hasn’t. Drop me a line if you’re interested in helping out in anyway.

In solidarity.

Email williaminscotland@gmail.com

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