September 25, 2012
Job cuts drive more across Tasman
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Labour leader David Shearer says Maori will continue to lose many of their most promising young people across the Tasman as long as the government’s lack of an employment policy persists.
It is already another week of job cuts, with state-owned Solid Energy and Kiwirail and private manufacturer Nuplex all downsizing because of tight economic conditions.
Mr Shearer says the country can’t afford to lose a thousand people across the Tasman.
“It’s a disaster for us and unfortunately the people who are going faster and in more numbers are the 22 to 35 age group so it’s our young smart bright people that have all the potential in front of them, they’re educated and now they’re going to Australia and giving them the benefits of all that skill and that education,” he says.
Mr Shearer says the mothballing of the Spring Creek coal mine will put great stress on Greymouth and the rest of the West Coast.