Posts by Brendon Mills
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Jonathan,
Clearly, you know nothing about the need to foster industry that provides high wage, high skill, jobs, and its the only way that this country is going to catch up with australia or win OECD pissing contests:
Industries with high wage jobs
1) Oil and gas
2) Construction
3) Primary Processing
4) High end manufacturing
5) Mining (but not in our National Parks or DOC land
6) Industries that depend on 1) to 6)Industries with low wage jobs
1) Film
2) Hospitality
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Really you guys remind me of the Tea Party protesters in the states last year.
While they protested because god forbid the US government wanted to ensure healthcare was avalible to everyone, not just those who were lucky to get paid out by their insurance company, while the people here, on Labour Day, of all days march in support of an industry that relies on low wages and job insecurity and against those who wish to challenge them. (mind you we marched for the right of parents to belt their children with jug cords and wooden planks, and the the right of wealthy interests to effectively buy elections, what the hell?)
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Sacha,
I think that everyone should now be clicking that this whole Hobbit thing was fired up as a disctration while the government sneaked out plans to reform state housing - which will impact on everyone who rents accomodation - because pushing several thousand people out into the private rental market isnt exactly going to make rents go DOWN is it? Especially with the Rugby World Cup coming up next year.
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While you tea-bagger wannabes are getting the tar and feathers ready for Robyn, Helen, Simon and that other chick whose name escapes me,
Our government is gearing up to evict thousands of state housing tenants, and flog their houses off. I do not consider that the government chose this weekend to make this accouncement very co-incidental.
So, translated, that means that private landlords (in RWC year) AND the international film barons are doing to be getting a big fat windfall.
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I will edit my post as well as it has lost all context.
Agree that this is one big f**k up though. Just as the CTU/Labour were gaining a bit of traction with their fairness at work campaign.
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I was just using the meat works as an example.
What I am saying that if we are to advance economically, and ensure a rising tide lifts all boats (I'm not keen on that term, but it needs to be used.), then we need to decide what industries are the bet fit if we are to have a decent standard of living.
And from what I see, we are better of sticking to the likes of oil + gas, environmentally friendly farming (though i do acknolwege that a lot of employment practices in the farming industry leave a lot to be desired for), and the export sector, based in part on kiwi innovation.
We will never get there in some race to the bottom aspect of the film industry.
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"..Because that is what the "crew" of students that are "Generously" given work experience and opportunities by Ms Ward Lealand et al on their theatrical endeavours can expect to receive!!!..."
That is genreally another issue that needs to be address.
The creative industry is rotten to the core with these things, and it needs a good shaking out.
Quite frankly they wont go away.
Were I be giving advice to a school leave today, I would be pointing them in the direction of the meatworks, not the backlot.
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"Wednesday will be truly weird. Nationwide peaceful protests by ordinary workers are going to be condemned by the Unions and left-wing blogs like The Standard.
And weirder still, they will be the first protest marches in recent memory that won't be joined by the usual suspects such as Minto, Bradford, Darroch, Rocky. or any Labour or Green MPs. Maybe NZ really is Middle Earth."
Because it is a march for what is effectilvely the holding down the wages and conditions in the film industry.
Dont you guys know what you are doing? You are destroying forever any chance of we have of a film industry which provides decent wages and conditions, and where workers are expendable. Do you want workers to be expenable in this country. That march will be against unions, high wages, overtime, holiday pay, job security, anything.
"On another note, Fran O'sullivan has the reason for the whole fiasco.
"Quite frankly, Fran can piss off the China. God forbid that us worms get high wages.
"and here it comes...
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/60139/union-can't-promise-no-strikes-during-world-cup"
God forbid that hospitality workers want their share of the world cup boom. But if the likes of Lowe had their way, the workers will still work long 14 hour days for minimum wage and if they complain, thy are out the door. The RWC is going to be all about low wages. According to Lowe, Jackson and the like, all workers are expendable.
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And before you people cry about the amount of jobs that get lost when The Hobbit goes to Poland (where by the way we will get a vastly inferior film), you have to remember that the Key government has cut more jobs from the civil service than that would be gained from The Hobbit, not to mention the thousands thrown on the scrap heap because we wouldnt pay our workers 50c per hour.
For the record: I am not opposed to a film industry, sometimes I think that who/whatever created this country somehow future-proofed it to be a backlot, but if we are to have the filmic version of a Chinese sweatshop, then I think we need to go back to the drawing board.
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"You mean massively polluting, hugely subsidised and unsustainable industries?
"I actually agree with you that there is a lot wrong with oil/gas/and farming, but I would rather have the high paying jobs that those industries create, then low wage, low security tourism and hospitality and film jobs.
I would love to see how many people got sacked from an oil and gas industry job under the 90-day law and compare that with how many from the tourism industry get sacked.