Young people set to get Rogered

Young Labour has grave concerns about the future for youth in New Zealand following today's news that ACT MP Roger Douglas' members bill to reintroduce youth rates has been drawn and will be debated in Parliament.

The deceitfully titled Minimum Wage (Mitigation of Youth Unemployment) Amendment Bill will seek to put in place discriminatory wages for young people, changing the minimum wage for young people under 18, which will see youth being paid less for the same work as their older colleagues. Young Labour takes a different stance to Douglas' outdated and disproved far-right rhetoric and thinks that lowering wages is not an acceptable way of dealing with an unemployment crisis.

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Rising Youth Unemployment is No Bright Future

Young Labour is dismayed by the results of today’s Household Labour Force Survey which shows youth unemployment has risen by 6.5 percent.

“Young Labour is appealing to the Government to take serious action to curb the rising rates of unemployment amongst young New Zealanders.” Young Labour President, Patrick Leyland, said this afternoon.

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Day of Action Against ACC Cuts

Today Young Labour will attend marches around the country to oppose changes to the ACC sensitive claims criteria that will allow only those diagnosed as having a mental disorder access to ACC funded sexual abuse counseling, says Young Labour President Patrick Leyland.

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Student Meeting Ambushed by Act on Campus

ACT on Campus yesterday ambushed a meeting of the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) Student Representative Council (SRC) meeting, to further their ideological push against Students’ Associations.

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