Each week I put out a News Letter named ‘Wheeler’s Corner’ it goes
out to a couple of hundred plus…I only send it to those who have requested it. I
started it about eight years ago. Three years ago I tried my hand at blogging
and my blog Wheeler’s Corner NZ was commenced which can be found at http://wheelerscornernz.blogspot.com/ has grown . My most read blog was http://wheelerscornernz.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/tale-of-solo-mom.html
which has hit 4000 page reads, second most read was: http://wheelerscornernz.blogspot.co.nz/2013/08/anne-hunt-speaks-out-for-justice.html
at 2000 page reads. Since I started the number of page reads has reached 98000
on one measuring system.
Since I receive a lot of replies to my W/C newsletter, both positive
and negative I might add, and since my W/C newsletter is broadcast on Access
Manawatu 999AM each Thursday at 11.45am and on which I find it difficult to fit
in and read out positive comments and especially negative comments if the
language is unsuitable for public radio broadcasting I have decided to put it on to
my blog-site some positive and or negative fed back received. This then is the first:
And while the authors name is Peter he is no relation to myself, but I should
add that Peter is a rather neat name to have…Peter is commenting on W/C 40 9th
October 2014 on an item titled Choose to end poverty:
Peter,
it was a powerful message today. The plight of our people without work is
absolutely disgusting, certainly, given the open door policies that welcome to
NZ every race imaginable
Every
immigrant to this country, displaces another person in a job, many times on
account of immigrants’ preparedness to work for lower wages. The demise of
universal
Trade
Union coverage of all workers has had a lot to do with our slide down the
slippery pole into economic serfdom I have been a trade unionist all my
working life and
have
always been grateful for the protections that Unionism provided for everyone.
In one of the last jobs I worked it appalled me to see the younger members of
our team
turning
their backs on the Union Rep visiting the job. I watched and remembered the
times my union had stuck up for me in various disagreements with employers.
Your
simile of the young guy working for the Ware House was very apt. He is
fortunate in having a fair employer which has taken him on and given him a job.
It is a moot
point
just what skills he is learning and how well they will serve him through the
remainder of his life. Guys who gave up the first five years of their working
lives have
enough
trouble now in finding work. What hope for a jumped up counter jumper?
Your
plug for the Tomato Cafe was valuable. There needs to be somewhere a list of
establishments, paying the Living Wage so the supporters of the principle among
us can
show
our approval of their actions by supporting their businesses.
I was
also pleased to see your plug for Action Station. It is based on the successful
operations overseas which are holding Governments to account simply by their
sheer
weight
of numbers. Two that come to mind are; GetUp Australia and Avaaz, the latter
with a membership now in excess of 20 million. Combined voices of that extent
are very
hard
for the dictators in our midst to ignore. Like it or not every country in the
world has its dictators with the possible exception of Switzerland which for
many years has had
its
own form of Direct Democracy where every decision or policy of its governments
are subject to 100 day scrutiny by the people, who decide, finally if the
measure can pass
into
law. What a different country we would have under a similar rule. No Government
in recent times has taken the slightest heed of the combined voices of our
people.
Peter.
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