Wellington City Council has just voted to support the Living Wage ‘in principle’, put $250,000 in the budget to research and implement it, and – crucially – has extended it to cover contractors not just in-house staff. It’s a great moment: not 100% of the way, since they haven’t put aside all the money...
Read more →Great news: Wellington City councillors have voted unanimously for a report on the Living Wage to be prepared, as follows: “to inform the annual plan deliberations on a proposed Council commitment to support a Living Wage. The report should advise on the following key points: · Whether Wellington city council should support the principle of a...
Read more →Today the campaign for a Living Wage – an $18.40 an hour pay rate for hard-working New Zealanders – took another big step forward with an amazing presentation to the Wellington City Council. A huge delegation, one of the biggest the council has seen in a long time, was led by St Andrews on...
Read more →The Living Wage campaign launch in Wellington a few weeks ago was a powerful lesson in the way that equal opportunities and equal incomes are inextricably linked. The highlight of the launch was a speech from Sosefina Masoe, a cleaner. Sosofina, who featured in this Dominion Post story, told how she and her husband...
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