Budget 2025 – The War on Workers Budget – stealing today what tomorrow never brings

Budget 2025 – The War on Workers Budget – stealing today what tomorrow never brings

We knew it would be bad, but sweet Jesus this was so much worse than anyone imagined! It was the Bully Budget! It was the anti-Robin Hood Budget! It was a War on Workers Budget! Sanctions on teenagers on welfare, rising unemployment, more child poverty, less money for RNZ to keep this Government accountable, and $650Million less for Māori! As Bernard Hickey put it… Willis ‘goes for growth’ with slower GDP growth forecast, higher borrowing, less …

Reverse Robin Hood Budget steals from working people

Budget 2025 takes $12.8bn from low-income, female dominated workforces to prop up the Government’s failed economic policies, said NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi Economist Craig Renney. “The Government has promised this would be a growth budget, yet it has effectively cut the wages of low-income women workers. We know that one of the best ways to stimulate economic growth is by lifting wages – the Government is doing the opposite,” said Renney. “The figu…