Wrongs which Need to be Righted

• Since a special worker is paid by the Labour Department, two special workers are cheaper for bosses than one permanent staff member.
• Government departments and local bodies clearly manipulate permanent staff ceilings according to the number of special workers available to be exploited.
• The corollary of this is that special workers are utterly expendable, and are therefore signed on and laid off in bunches, in an erratic way according to the whims of bosses (heads of departments).
• The Labour Department interprets the right to work for a living as compulsion to work for a forty hour week.
• The person registered for employment is supposed to relinquish any preference for type of work, to be bought and sold backwards and forwards between bosses who want cheap labour and the Labour Department "worker warehouse".
• Though there are always many times more "male vacancies" than female vacancies, women do not have access to this far greater range of jobs, via the Labour Department (in this town anyway).
• The collusion between the Labour Department, other government departments, bosses in the private sector and the media which presents the "statistics" and describes the "bludgers" ensures that the system will go on without effective opposition.
• There are currently over 16,000 unemployed persons in N.Z., 8,000 of these persons are pawns in a game of fool the public. They are "special workers".