Why would you meet a group that acts in bad faith?

Newsroom reports:

It can’t be much of a surprise that a relatively inexperienced Act MP, handed the workplace relations portfolio, doesn’t want to entertain the country’s biggest union in her office.

But it still astonishes the head of that union, the CTU’s president, Richard Wagstaff.

It shouldn’t be a surprise. If the CTU merely advocated for workers in the same way Business NZ advocates for employers, it would probably get lots of meetings.

But at the last election it spent $300,000 campaigning against National. Not in a “We think their policies are bad” type of way but saying Luxon was out of touch and can’t be trusted.

BusinessNZ never runs election advertisements, let alone ones that personally denigrate leaders of political parties.

So it is no surprise that the Minister would see little merit in meeting with them.