Construction Workforce Crisis Under National

Construction Workforce Crisis Under National

The Government should be doing everything it can to stop the steady flow of construction workers leaving New Zealand for better pay, conditions and work opportunities. Instead, Luxon’s stop-start approach has cost people their jobs and pushed people overseas ...

Construction workforce crisis under National – Labour

Christopher Luxon’s decisions have cost 18,000 people their jobs in the construction sector. “Losing 18,000 workers since 2023 is devastating for a sector that should still be booming with work. A thousand more in the last month is a tragedy,” Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. “National stopped a huge amount of construction work when they came in and today we see clearly the consequences of that. “The Government should be doing everything it can…