New Zealand wages rising (kinda)

Victoria University’s Industrial Relations Centre has released its report Employment Agreements: Bargaining Trends & Employment Law Update 2005/2006, which has some figures on NZ wages increases. Despite some top level news that wages are increasing, it actually shows that workers on the lowest wages are falling behind. Apparently, 'there are industries where the lowest wage has increased by less than $2 each year for the last 15 years. “The lowest paid storage workers are earning just $24 more today than they were in 1992, and for a community services worker it might be only $54 more”.' Inequality continues...