It doesn’t smell right does it?
The Government just u-turns on Zero Hours allowing Labour and the Unions a win?
I get an awful feeling a deal has maybe been made. Labour backs the new Surveillance Powers and National throw them a bone in the form of Zero Hours.
We will know for sure when the surveillance report is released. If Labour roll over, a deal has been cut, if they fight back on state powers, it will be a genuine sign that Key’s Government have lost track of their legislative agenda and are getting pushed back on a range of idealogical fronts.
I hope for the latter, I suspect the former.
What you’re saying is if Labour don’t do what I want on the security services it means they sold it out for zero hours? Do you think the CTU and Unite are complicit in this?
Think you are wrong judging by Nathan Guy’s outburst. The Government have finally got governing in MMP and they are pissed. To get through their must have election promise of expanding maternity leave they need this bill by 1 April, if it did not go through there would be a real problem of not having it bedded in by election 2017!
National are smarting, and looking pretty defensive saying it wasn’t a back down when it clearly was.
“It doesn’t smell right does it?”
No it smells bad and you can bet there is a hook there somewhere where once again we will be forced to swallow yet another dead rat like we did over TPPA as national are just rotten to the core and shifty.
Wise you point this out Martyn, for us to be suspicious and to “beware the devil in the detail” here.
More likely the deal is the TPP.
They probably mean to push their luck on it to save National’s bacon – god knows why – it will be the death of the Labour party if they do.
Labour wasn’t saving National’s bacon when they came out and said they do not and will not support the TPPA.
I also wonder.
Zero hours contracts is an integral part of neo-liberal philosophy in keeping the workers in their place and to be defeated on this must be very galling for National and their sycophants.
I suspect they will try again, calling them “flexible work arrangements” or some nonsense like that and offering hefty inducements for Peter Dunne and the Maori Party to come on board.
We haven’t seen the last of zero contracts in NZ, I am sure of that.
Yeah Martyn I came to the same
conclusion
I hope Labour haven’t fallen victim to
a sham
Good to see Dunne and Fox have done the right thing here. shame it’s taken so long
MMP in action .
Iain Lees Galloway, an ex union organiser issued one of the few unequivocal statements from an NZ Labour MP in recent times on Zero Hours, it came to pass to applause from many, Unite still deserves more kudos but well done
However, NZ Labour needs to make many more unequivocal statements if they are going to have a shit show in 2017 of making up part of an MMP government that sends the Nats packing
I would suspect there will be quid pro quo in the mix but wouldn’t it be nice to be proven wrong again?
Off topic Can confirm that Mahesh Bindra is correct in what he has said. The Hindi translation does read ” tick the flag of New Zealand which you want to be the new flag” That would confuse people and make them think they will have to tick Lockwood’s design. Winston Peters is absolutely correct in his assertions, and that this amounts to rigging the vote in John key’s favour. The Hindi translation is very different from the Punjabi translation which reads “tick the flag which you want to be the New Zealand flag”
How many other nationalities have been incorrectly translated with incorrect misleading wording?
A nice wee win. Good work.
Labour is so useless as an Opposition that they can no longer credibly serve National even as stooges in Parliament. Thus National is now saddled with the ironic task of making Labour look alive for long enough to get the TPP and Total Surveillance across the line.
Zero Hours Contracts were banned by National in the interests of “throwing Labour a bone”. Watching Little’s face when he reported it, there was no glee, no triumph, not even gratitude; it was the expressionless face of a man who has just been reminded by the generosity of his benefactors just how powerless he truly is.
Zero Hours Contracts are so morally offensive that even National was embarrassed by the issue. Mike Treen and Unite Union truly earned the win, but National could have held out for another year, and they might have done. But if they broke another Labour Leader so soon after breaking the last two they broke, Labour might roll the dice and turn up a Corbyn, or a Sanders. No, Little is best kept right where he is, doing exactly what he’s doing, being the cork in the bottle of New Zealand working class aspirations.
Besides, once the TPP is entrenched, New Zealanders will turn around and BEG for the chance at a Zero Hour contract. International Capital will soon be flaying the hide off of New Zealand workers with a free hand. And Andrew Little will be there to keep all that plebeian outrage, anger and angst safely bottled up, which is Labour’s true function under our system.
you are quite right about labour being useless as a opposition. So are the greens. When i have said it i get accused as being a Nat lover. welcome to my world.
Our parliament is modeled on the Westminster system, and as such the Labour party, Greens and NZ First ARE doing their jobs. Labour, unions, other opposition parties and kiwis in general have secured a good win for the workers that otherwise wouldnt have happened, regardless of a fear of a fish hook, whether its real or imagined.
Load of rubbish Mygeneration.
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