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It is not only the tens of thousands of supermarket workers who are noticing the growing gap between wages and profits. "I’d appreciate them using some of those profits to make everything more comfortable for us workers," Graeme says. Last year, Woolworths NZ supermarkets had a $202million net profit, while Foodstuffs’ North and South Island co-operatives, which run Pak’nSave, New World and Four Square stores, had a combined $407.3million operating profit. Graeme is aware of the huge profits being made by New Zealand’s supermarket duopoly, Woolworths NZ and Foodstuffs. The mortgage payments are met by having a boarder living with them in their two bedroom house. The deposit was only achieved by saving hard and not leaving home until he bought his own place. To his credit, this year, he and his partner put a 10% deposit on a house. He might be counting his blessings, but it is still a battle to build a life on that income. Graeme works at a Countdown store, in Otago. Woolworths New Zealand, which runs Countdown supermarkets, has a collective agreement with First Union to pay no less than $21.78 an hour to checkout operators who have been with the company a year. Most non-unionised supermarkets pay ordinary employees the minimum wage, $20 an hour. "I think it’s because we have a bloody good union behind us," Graeme says. That means, a couple of days a week his pay climbs from a few cents above the living wage, $22.75 an hour, to a few cents above $23 an hour.Īnd, yes, he agrees, among New Zealand’s 57,000 supermarket workers he is one of the fortunate ones. He must be doing a good job, because he has been given extra responsibilities. Graeme is in his twenties and has been a supermarket worker for more than five years. None of the supermarket workers, nor their mums, mentioned in this article were willing to take that risk. In the world of supermarket workers, he is one of the lucky ones. As Labour Day weekend is celebrated around the country, Bruce Munro takes a look. But if you still can’t afford to buy a home, something else needs to change, for the sake of everyone’s future.

PHOTO: GETTY IMAGESFair pay would be a good start. Pakistan, in their reply, not only kept their wickets intact in the powerplay overs but also scored briskly with Babar and Rizwan effectively killing off the contest with their rock-solid stand.īabar brought up his fifty in style, hitting spinner Varun Chakravarthy for a six, while Rizwan reached his own fifty with a pulled boundary off Jasprit Bumrah.Supermarket workers, many on or earning little more than the minimum wage, have worked through the pandemic. Kohli fell in the penultimate over of the innings trying to accelerate but India still made the 150-mark. Shadab Khan foxed Pant with a googly to induce a skier which the spinner caught himself to dismiss the batsman for 39.

Pant then decided to counter-attack and hit Hasan Ali for back-to-back sixes but his ultra-aggression ultimately did him in. Kohli and Rishabh Pant calmed nerves in the Indian camp and guided the team to 60/3 at the halfway stage of the innings. Suryakumar Yadav hit Afridi for a six but Rizwan took a diving catch behind the stumps to dismiss the batsman and reduce India to 31/3 in the sixth over. The left-arm pacer fired in a searing yorker-length delivery to dismiss Rohit Sharma lbw for a golden duck and, in his next over, rifled one through KL Rahul's gate to rearrange the stumps. Pakistan did not have to wait long for a breakthrough as Shaheen Afridi (3/31) struck twice in his first seven deliveries to rattle India. Wary of the dew factor, captains have preferred to field and Babar too followed that trend after winning the toss. His counterpart Babar combined with Mohammad Rizwan to get Pakistan off to a flying start and then overwhelmed the target with 13 balls to spare to snap India's 100% win record against them in limited-overs World Cups.īabar remained not out on 68, while Rizwan made an unbeaten 79. Virat Kohli played a captain's knock of 57 to rescue India from a top-order wobble and help them post a competitive 151/7 in a rematch of the inaugural 2007 final.

Pakistan snapped India's 100% win record against them in limited-overs World CupsĬaptain Babar Azam led by example as Pakistan beat India in a World Cup showdown for the first time ever with a 10-wicket romp in a Super 12 blockbuster at the Twenty20 World Cup Sunday.