New Zealand should follow Aussie lead on job protection

The Mar­itime Union says the New South Wales State Gov­ern­ment could teach John Key one or two things about pro­tect­ing jobs.

Near­ly $4 bil­lion worth of NSW gov­ern­ment goods and ser­vices includ­ing uni­forms, cars and even trains, will have to be sourced from Aus­tralian com­pa­nies in order to boost local pro­duc­tion and jobs, in an upcom­ing bud­get annouce­ment that has been wel­comed by Aus­tralian unions.

Mar­itime Union of New Zealand Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says this idea should be adopt­ed imme­di­ate­ly in New Zealand.