E tū celebrates largest ever minimum wage increase
The minimum wage is set to increase by $1.20 to $17.70 in April 2019 – the largest increase in the…
Year: 2018
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Fuel Truck Drivers’ Strike Turns Into Lively Picket – First Union
It’s day four of the fuel tanker strike and SouthFuel truck drivers are picketing their workplace. Bargaining broke down…
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Kids without beds
Most of us take it for granted that when we go to sleep at night it will be in a bed, but for a number of our children – not just one or two but several thousand- a mattress on the floor, sleeping on the couch or sharing a bed is the norm. I see, for example, there is a Beds for Christmas campaign running in Whangarei to get some beds for kids who don’t have one.
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MUST READ: Working Towards The Führer
AN “AFFRONT TO DEMOCRACY”, was the State Services Commissioner’s characterisation of the state bureaucracy’s decision to spy on political activists. Few would disagree. That multiple state agencies felt entitled to contract-out the gathering of political intelligence to the privately owned and operated Thompson & Clark Investigations Ltd reveals a widespread antidemocratic disdain for citizens’ rights within the New Zealand public service. The alarming revelations of the State Services’ inquiry raise two very important questions: How did this disdain for democratic norms become so entrenched? And what, if anything, can Jacinda Ardern’s government do to eradicate it?
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MEDIA WATCH: Micro-Aggression Policing at its most Woke
Welcome to the madness that is perpetual Millennial aggrieved culture.
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Don’t Need an Essay Writing Service? 7 Issues Say You Really Do
“I love writing essays, book reports, dissertations! Just give me any topic, and I’ll produce the best paper you’ve ever…
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Political Caption Competition
We are going to bury all the bodies right here.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 21st December 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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The 3 things National would have us believe about the State Stasi spying scandal
It is utterly unacceptable that this has occurred, there must be a purge of the public service and if the Government doesn’t do it they must ask themselves this question, if you can’t control these Ministries, who actually runs NZ?
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TWITTER WATCH: Ummmmm – Aunty Helen, ummmmmmm
…didn’t you oversee a grotesque abuse of surveillance powers with the deeply flawed Urewera terrorism case that saw an entire Māori township come under illegal martial law?