Showing posts with label Unite Waitemata National Supporter May 1st. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unite Waitemata National Supporter May 1st. Show all posts

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Chatting with National supporter at Bennett's Clinic


One of the women waiting at the Clinic said she wanted to talk to Paula about benefits. Interested, I asked her what about? She said she was a trainer of beneficiaries and the problem was how they wanted to keep on studying rather than taking jobs. One of our members, a student, said that since there were no jobs to go to, wasn't it wise to keep trying to develop skills that might help us to find a decent job? I was amazed at this woman's attitude towards her own students. She seemed to view them like very bad children who needed to be firmly controlled.