{"id":90062,"date":"2025-10-20T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90062\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:17:09","slug":"pm-gives-briefing-as-labour-launches-policy-mega-strike-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90062\/","title":{"rendered":"PM gives briefing as Labour launches policy, mega-strike looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour&#8217;s long-awaited announcement of a major policy, and Thursday&#8217;s strike by health and education workers is the backdrop to the Prime Minister&#8217;s post-Cabinet briefing today.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Luxon is addressing media and taking questions at the Beehive.<\/p>\n<p>Labour this morning announced it will create another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/10\/20\/nz-future-fund-labour-reveals-first-major-policy-for-next-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">future fund<\/a> if it wins next year\u2019s election \u2013 which would begin with a $200 million investment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/10\/19\/mega-strike-incoming-govt-on-offensive-union-leader-fires-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went on the offensive<\/a> ahead of a planned mega-strike expected to involve around 100,000 workers this Thursday, with Public Service Minister Judith Collins calling it &#8220;unfair and unwarranted&#8221; action and saying the strikes appeared to be &#8220;politically motivated by the unions&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>In response, incoming Council of Trade Unions president Sandra Grey said Collins was &#8220;trying to drive a wedge&#8221; between New Zealanders.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the political agenda, two new non-financial sanctions focused on job searches and upskilling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/10\/20\/new-sanctions-take-effect-under-benefit-traffic-light-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched today<\/a> under the Government&#8217;s beneficiary traffic light scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour&#8217;s long-awaited announcement of a major policy, and Thursday&#8217;s strike by health and education workers is the backdrop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44152,11508,8028,11507,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-90062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-chris-hipkins","9":"tag-christopher-luxon","10":"tag-labour-party","11":"tag-national-party","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}