Low-paid jobs
Sir,—Regardless of the pros or cons of work schemes such as the P.E.P. scheme at the Selwyn plantation, it was very big of Ms Mary O’Donoghue, from the Unemployed Rights Centre, to state that unemployed people are refusing jobs because they are low-paid and menial. There are many people in low-paid, menial jobs who have qualifications well above those for which they are employed, but have taken on a low-paid, menial job simply because it is a job, and the wages pay the bills. It seems that some people wish to start off at the top of whatever career they embark upon, but this seems unrealistic. If the wages and conditions at the Selwyn plantation are so bad, why do not the people employed there organise themselves into
some form of trade union, and demand better wages and conditions. This seems far more beneficial in the long term to all concerned, than for some to remain on the dole indefinitely.—Yours, etc.,
PETER W. KENNEDY. January 23, 1985.
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