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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
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Employers are not to blame for rising inequality. Housing is.

Union analysis of the causes of house price inflation is flawed, TOP leader says.

Geoff Simmons
Fri, 18 Jan 2019

The trade union movement have leapt on the rising cost of living to push their case for employment law reform. Unfortunately when you look at the evidence employers aren’t really to blame for the struggles facing our working class. Housing is.

The claim from unions is that in 1981 the share of

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Geoff Simmons
Fri, 18 Jan 2019
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