Monday, May 09, 2005

New Zealand IR lessons

It took New Zealand five years to turn around the economic and social devastation wrought by an IR regime being aped by Australia, a leading Kiwi politician has warned.

Government MP, Nanaia Mahuta, said nine years of life under the Employment Contracts Act, the blueprint for Howard’s agenda, left her country demoralised.

"We faced low morale amongst our working people," Mahuta told Workers Online. "And we lost thousands and thousands of skilled workers, mainly to Australia.

"New Zealand is not a big country and the talent drain still costs us."

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