$15 minimum wage meeting Grant Brookes (Residents Action Movement)

Grant Brookes, chair of RAM Residents Action Movement, talking to a public meeting in Wellington, New Zealand on 9 August, 2009. He speaks about how the petition for a Citizens Initiated Referendum on raising the minimum wage can mobilise grassroots people against the National-led government create an alternative response to the economic crisis. The goal of the petition is an immediate rise to $15 an hour, and then getting the minimum wage linked to 66% of the average wage. Grant's talk is at http://unityaotearoa.blogspot.com/2009/08/ram-chair-grant-brookes-on-15-hour.... The meeting was co-organised by RAM Residents Action Movement http://www.ram.org.nz and the Alliance Party http://www.alliance.org.nz. There's more on the petition campaign at http://www.unite.org.nz/?q=node/610.

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• Minimum wage
• petition
• Unite Union
• trade union
• unions recession
• economic crisis
• Alliance Party
• New Zealand
• RAM