A Living Wage Enables Dignity and Participation
The guest In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Face Television this week is Annie Newman, a spokesperson for the The
Living Wage Aotearoa NZ campaign. Because of the widespread interest in the idea that a living wage is an important part
of a fair society, we are re-broadcasting this Conversation.
A “living wage” is the income necessary to provide workers and their families with the basic necessities of life and to
enable workers to live with dignity and to participate as active citizens in society. It has been suggested that workers
paid through publicly-supported funds should earn wages above the poverty level and that private contractors supplying
such organisations should pay their workers a “living wage”.
"In Conversation with Noel Cheer", Face Television, Monday September 16th at 7:00pm, repeated on Tuesday September 17th
at 12 noon.
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Auckland region on UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52. It is also live-streamed on www.ecasttv.co.nz. The website
www.facetv.co.nz carries programme schedules. Some past episodes of In Conversation can be viewed at
www.youtube.com/user/NoelCheer
"In Conversation with Noel Cheer" receives funding from New Zealand on Air. This has enabled us to introduce viewers to
over 270 New Zealanders on Air (as well as visitors to New Zealand) during nearly seven years of unbroken weekly
public-interest broadcasting.
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