Yesterday (Thursday March 11) I bought a lettuce at Pak’nSave.
The cost was over $5. I am told that farmers are ploughing them back into the ground because they cannot get pickers, hence the high cost.
What are WINZ doing to direct those on the unemployment benefit onto filling these positions instead of just letting them loaf around, getting paid the benefit which comes from the taxes paid by those who are working?
If they were working they would be contributing to the economy rather than being a drain on it.
What other industries are in the same situation?
Arthur Moore, Pakuranga
