T H E J O B S L E T T E R 1 3 0
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published in New Zealand 8 September 2000
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MAYORS MEET MAORI
AN EMPLOYMENT STRATEGY
ADVOCATES MEET GOVERNMENT
CEG APPOINTMENT
CEOS
INCOME AND JOB INSECURITY
The Jobs Letter is now freely available on the internet at
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13000.htm
or to download as a PDF file (require Adobe Acrobat reader) at
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/pdf/jbl130.pdf
E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y
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* Our Diary of key events over the last few weeks. Buy-NZ campaign. Deepwater yachting
facilities mean jobs. Doctors leaving NZ. Wanganui One More Worker campaign. No
Security work at Olympics. Teacher shortage predicted.
Social Worker shortage hits Waikato.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13001.htm
* More than fifty beneficiary advocates from Northland to Invercargill have met with
government ministers and departments. They have a list of 123 immediate changes they
want in order to assist those living on a benefit.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13000.htm#advoc
* The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs have met in Wellington with leaders of the (now
dis-established) Maori Economic and Employment Commissions. The Mayors want to draw
on the experience of the Maori Commissions when consider
ing their own plans for employment action.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13000.htm#mtfj
* Voices from the Taskforce meeting with Maori Commissions: Mayor Derek Fox, June
McCabe, Rongo Wetere and Professor Ian Shirley.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13010.htm
* Professor Ian Shirley last year led a team (including Peter Harris, Ganesh Nana,
Dennis Rose and Kel Sanderson) developing a national employment strategy on behalf of
the Maori Employment and Training Commission. His re
port on this uncompleted work has now been released to the public ... and we print
some extracts.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13011.htm
* Charlie Moore is the new General Manager of the Community Employment Group.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13000.htm#ceg
* The government's new Community Employment Organisations (CEOs) will be launched on
October 1st. Will the set-up grants (of $25,000 per organisation) be enough for
community groups to do the job?
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13000.htm#ceos
* The "Future Incomes" conference will be held in Palmerston North on Friday 22nd
September. Conference organiser Ian Ritchie points out that over half the labour force
are "income insecure", and this conference may be th
e first in New Zealand to focus on these issues.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13000.htm#future
* The booming US economy is seeing record numbers of workers move from insecure
employment to full-time permanent jobs
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl13000.htm#boom
* The full report of the June Redesigning Resources conference (see The Jobs Letter
No.127) is now available on the internet at
http://www.redesigningresources.org/
* Hazel Henderson offers a critique of globalisation which is creating a bubble
economy at the cost of real, more local enterprises and livelihoods. See our online
bookstore at
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/books/1565491076.htm
* The Jobs Letter is now "free to air". Yes, this is our second issue "live" in the
internet at the time of publication. Feel free to copy and redistribute it.
http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/jbl12900.htm#free
C R E D I T S
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ISSN No. 1172-6695
edited by Vivian Hutchinson for the Jobs Research Trust
P.O.Box 428, New Plymouth, New Zealand
phone 06-753-4434 fax 06-753-4430
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Associates - Rodger Smith, Dave Owens and Jo Howard
Secretary - Shirley Vickery
T H E J O B S L E T T E R
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on jobs, employment, unemployment, the future of work,
and related economic and education issues.
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constituted in 1994 to develop and distribute information
that will help our communities create more jobs and reduce
unemployment and poverty in New Zealand.
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ahakoa ki whea, ahakoa ko wai.
Our objective is that every New Zealander will have the
opportunity to be in paid work.
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