Petition for a Citizens Initiated Referendum

Unite! union are petitioning the government to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and we're getting behind them!

Download the petition and start collecting signatures today [247KB, PDF]

This campaign aims to:

• get an immediate rise in the minimum wage to $15 an hour
• have it set at two-thirds of the average wage.

The first part of the campaign is to collect over 300,000 signatures within the next 12 months on our Citizen’s Initiated Referendum Petition.

450,000 New Zealanders with not enough to live on

Currently 450,000 New Zealanders live on less than $15 an hour and more than 100,000 live on minimum wage. That’s not enough to live on.

30% of New Zealanders on the lowest incomes in 2004 were worse off in real dollars than they were 20 years ago. Meanwhile corporate profits increased 11% a year from 2000-2004 and the wealthiest 10% of the population are 21% better off than they were 20 years ago.

You can help!

Download the petition and start collecting signatures today [247KB, PDF]

Return completed petitions to: Green Party, Parliament Buildings, Wellington

Getting signatures is easy!

Print petitions and take them with you to stalls, community centres, shops, bars and any office with a front desk.

Ask if you can leave a petition on the counter and pick it up later.

Remember make a list of where you left them to collect completed petitions later.

Download the petition and start collecting signatures today [247KB, PDF]