Dear Workers – look how frightened Simeon Brown is – STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
Senior doctors not ruling out more strike action over ongoing pay disagreement
Comrades
Look how frightened Simeon Brown is at the enormity of the strike action against him inside Public Health.
Make no mistake, National have manufactured a financial ‘crisis’ by purposely underfunding Public health by not taking into account population growth, inflation and an aging population.
They are doing this to enable the private sector to move in.
National promised you cost of living solutions, but they lied to you didn’t they?
Remember the $250 per fortnight tax cut they promised you?
Remember that?
How many actually got it?
Fewer than 50 families to get National’s full tax package, says CTU
Remember the $75 per week FamilyBoost child education rebate that was going to help working Mums and dads with childcare – how many ended up getting it?
Uptake figures as of April 9 show 249 households have received the full FamilyBoost payment.
They lied about tax cuts and they lied about Child payment rebates – they falsified how many would benefit so they could strangle off Public Services.
We have no choice but to fight back!
EVERY PUBLIC WORKER requires a 15% across the board pay rise ALONGSIDE more holidays ALONGSIDE more benefits so that we build public sector jobs that acknowledge their importance in the running of the State and Society.
To do that we need real political muscle and Union Leaders prepared to use that political muscle.
Our refusal to enact ILO Convention 87 on the right to strike, our lack of true leadership inside the Union movement and the failure to do anything other than perk up bureaucrats in Wellington has meant that when a truly right wing government appears with a radical agenda, there is no Union movement left to fight.
We have almost no rights to strike in this country.
No rights for sympathy strikes, no rights for wildcat strikes, no rights at all because we have a Union movement too frightened to actually fight for them.
I agree with the International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) and their analysis of our weak union movement:
- Reforms to overturn the legislative undermining of freedom of association and the right to strike
- Amend the right to freedom of association in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 to expressly include the right to collectively bargain and the right to strike in conformity with the law
- Include the right to decent work (including the right to gain one’s living by work which is freely chosen or accepted) in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
- Include the right to just and favourable conditions of work (as expressed in art 7 of ICESCR) in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
- Include other economic, social and cultural rights in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
- Review the role of the courts, and Parliament, in ensuring rights-consistent legislation – remove excessive sanctions from the social welfare system
- Ensure effective implementation of the principle of equal opportunity and treatment in employment, including for Māori workers
- Review immigration policies and regulations to remove barriers to migrant workers seeking assistance and remedies for labour exploitation and other rights abuses
A 10 day nationwide strike would do more for workers than 10 elections ever could.
This anti-Worker Government has pushed for lower wages, weaker safety regulations and deregulation of industry for their donors interests at the cost of those who make capitalism work – the actual workers!
As geopolitical tensions point the pretension of free market capitalism, it is the workers who are tasked with getting the job done who are trapped in late stage capitalism on a burning planet!
Our economy, community and society are going to be forced into urgent adaptation thanks to global warming and AI.
Late Stage Capitalism is collapsing under the weight of its own greed.
Workers Rights are Human Rights.
We need to be kinder to individuals and crueller to corporations.
It is time for the Left to unite and fight back.
Dear Workers – look how frightened Simeon Brown is – STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
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Poor little fella would have gone home to mum and had a good blub .People are starting to wake up at last ,just look at the arse kicking the right got in AUS yesterday .Dutton could not even keep his own seat .
Pee Wee Brown really has no idea about industrial matters. He was upset “the union” did not put a late offer to members and the strike proceeded. An experienced Minister would know that bargaining teams are delegated by members to make the call within certain parameters-they do not have to consult at the Ministers whim.
Well done Doctors, particularly signalling more direct action. When this group, previously regarded by many as an elite group strike, the Govt. better pay attention.