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Sandra Grey: CTU President on the new survey showing workers are displeased with the Government · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Living is still front and center for workers right now,
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  Speaker 2: and no politician is really flavor of the month. This
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  Speaker 2: is according to the ctu's Mood of the Workforce Survey.
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  Speaker 2: CTU polls three and a half thousand union nonion members
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  Speaker 2: earlier in the month. The findings even full time workers
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  Speaker 2: are struggling to afford the basics. The prevailing mood towards
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  Speaker 2: politicians is one of distrust and anger. Sandra Gray is
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  Speaker 2: the CTU president with me this evening, Sandra.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, Good evening.
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  Speaker 2: So look, no one comes out of this really shining,
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  Speaker 2: do they.
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  Speaker 3: No. We see a real sense of anger and disappointment
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  Speaker 3: towards the current Prime Minister and his cabinet. People feel
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  Speaker 3: exceptionally let down by them, think that they are only
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  Speaker 3: looking after their wealthy mates and not looking after workers.
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  Speaker 3: But for all political parties, I think there's a message
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  Speaker 3: in there that says people want bold politicians who will
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  Speaker 3: actually do something about making sure that ordinary workers have
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  Speaker 3: a great life, and they aren't giving anyone the big
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  Speaker 3: trick at the moment they're saying there's lots of work
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  Speaker 3: to be done.
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  Speaker 2: I think, look, I think a lot of people will
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  Speaker 2: take the survey with a bit of a grain of
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  Speaker 2: salt because it is the unions. But you know, just
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  Speaker 2: talking to people everyday, people in New Zealand, there is
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  Speaker 2: a sense that things are so expensive now and actually
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  Speaker 2: they're never going to get cheaper. You know, like this
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  Speaker 2: is not a short term problem. It's a medium, long
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  Speaker 2: term problem, affordability issue that we've got, and not just us,
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  Speaker 2: but other countries like us around the world.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly, what you get is a sense that the future
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  Speaker 3: does not look rosy for workers in terms of does
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  Speaker 3: this genuinely affect workers? Other surveys out, other data out
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  Speaker 3: would say this is exactly how people are feeling about,
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  Speaker 3: particularly this government. So it is a very strong result.
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  Speaker 3: I think the thing is that year on year it
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  Speaker 3: feels like it's getting worse. So you know, about sixty
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  Speaker 3: percent of the survey, as you say, both union and
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  Speaker 3: non union members the same, they've fallen behind. They just
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  Speaker 3: aren't affording the things they used to. And when we
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  Speaker 3: talk about the things that people can't afford, housand healthcare
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  Speaker 3: is really problematic to get access to because it all
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  Speaker 3: the cuts the public service, and of course food people
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  Speaker 3: are saying, I just can't buy the sort of nutritious
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  Speaker 3: food I want for my kids because it's just got
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  Speaker 3: so expensive. So we feel it every day. We hear
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  Speaker 3: it every day from our friends and our family members.
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  Speaker 3: And now three and a half thousand people have spoken
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  Speaker 3: and said, this is tough. It is tough out yere.
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  Speaker 2: Sandra Gray, who is what see to you? Appreciate your time.
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