Reposted by Living Wage Employer New Zealand
Through pure people power - with workers, faith, and community uniting - the Govt has decided to keep the Living Wage in its procurement guidelines for contracted cleaners, catering workers, and security guards.
Special mention to the many workers who stood up and organised for this win. #NZpol
![Below a photo of Phil Wilson, CEO, Auckland Council text reads:
"..if we want an inclusive community, if we want people contributing, if we actually want to raise the bar in terms of incomes and quality of life, then we've got to leave [behind]the mentality that takes us down a kind of low wage path...We've got to have an aspiration for a more productive, a better rewarded, a higher wage kind of economy that's based on collectively raising the bar in terms of education and the work opportunities and types of industries we have in the region." - Phil Wilson, CEO, Auckland Council](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6d774rgm6qbh5g2oewvzqoj/bafkreiaahijqagtzlgcbjnwg5ljxivkokcj46r7nnmxet6vcvrips54sli)
![Below a photo of Fiona her quote reads:
It makes absolutely no sense to me, that in a health care organization you would allow your own workers to live in poverty, when fundamentally you are a business trying to help people who have, perhaps had a health care issue because of that [housing & money]"
Fiona Michel, CEO Braemar Hospital](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6d774rgm6qbh5g2oewvzqoj/bafkreif6xu46wjml2w4lv65kt7iyhk7cn7sq47d3njpaz673nqyyzd2zvq)
