Why NZ’s public sector wage freeze ignores the lessons of history
- Written by Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
With the government facing a serious backlash over its public sector wage freeze policy, that sound you hear could be the ghost of Rob Muldoon chuckling.
CC BYAs finance minister in the Holyoake government (1960-72) and later as prime minister (1975-81), he knew how tempting –...