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Speaker 1: Of course, the other big news topic of the day,

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Speaker 1: it's mega strike time. Over one hundred thousand workers walking

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Speaker 1: off the job right across the country from all fields, health, education,

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Speaker 1: public service. One of them, as part of our local

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Speaker 1: collective of n z EI support staffs, is Annie Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: Morning Mona. First, sorry it's come to this. How are

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Speaker 2: you feeling?

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Speaker 3: I think we're all just a bit like shell shop

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Speaker 3: that it has come to this.

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Speaker 2: How bad is it on the front line?

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Speaker 3: It's kind of it's getting worse and worse as we

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Speaker 3: go on. There's so many of our staff are heading

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Speaker 3: off shore because they just can't afford to do it anymore.

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Speaker 3: The love's there, but that's the ability to do it

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Speaker 3: is not there anymore.

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Speaker 2: Is it just about the money.

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Speaker 3: It's not just about the money. It's never been just

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Speaker 3: about the money. It's about how we valued and respected

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Speaker 3: by the government. It's about all those support mechanisms and

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Speaker 3: therefore the teachers, especially the the job's just getting bigger

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Speaker 3: and bigger and bigger, and there's only so many hours

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Speaker 3: in the day that they can actually work. For support staff,

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Speaker 3: it's things like security, job security. A lot of support

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Speaker 3: staff workers don't know kum to term or even yet

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Speaker 3: a year that whether they've even got a job.

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Speaker 2: You see that one covers the surprise to many people,

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Speaker 2: it would.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes. And also support staff aren't paid in the holidays,

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Speaker 3: so we're working ten weeks and anyone goes, oh, you've

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Speaker 3: got two weeks holiday, It's like, yeah, awesome, But I've

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Speaker 3: also got two weeks without pay.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And I've got to look after my kids. Yeah. And

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Speaker 3: I've got to look after my kids at home for

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Speaker 3: the two weeks are home with no money.

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Speaker 2: Sheeez.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a bit of.

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Speaker 1: A bummer ironically that the wind has taken the wind

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Speaker 1: out of the sales. As I know, there was a

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Speaker 1: march planned here in Ashburton. Can you make any noise

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Speaker 1: from at home or is there anything else planned?

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Speaker 3: Yes, We've We've asked all our members to get online,

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Speaker 3: to post things, to make videos, to sort of virtually

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Speaker 3: support our colleagues. Who can march for us, who can

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Speaker 3: sort of yell and screaming and talk for us, so

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Speaker 3: as best we can.

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Speaker 2: What do you hope to see happened as a result

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Speaker 2: of today.

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Speaker 3: I hope to see that our negotiation teams, the ones

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Speaker 3: who are coming to the government sending to the table

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Speaker 3: are more open to just hearing what we have to

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Speaker 3: say and trying to work with all of those areas

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Speaker 3: that we're looking at. All the offers just keep coming

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Speaker 3: back with more and more erosion of what they've offered

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Speaker 3: the time before, of what we've currently got that we've

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Speaker 3: worked hard for over the years, and just see that

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Speaker 3: some of the things they're asking for are just not possible.

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Speaker 1: No one wants to be out of work. I know

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Speaker 1: it's an issue that's been cultivated by successive governments. So

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Speaker 1: hope we can get things sorted sooner rather than later,

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Speaker 1: so you can continue doing the wonderful work that you

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Speaker 1: do and feel valued as you should in doing it.

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Speaker 1: All the best to yourself, Sazannie Rodgers and everybody who

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Speaker 1: is taking action today,