Tesco withdraws Christmas cards from sale after forced labour claims
Supermarket halts production in China after six-year-old girl finds plea for help inside card

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/22/tesco-halts-production-at-chinese-factory-over-forced-labour-claims-christmas-cards

Supermarkets the new profiteers!

Supermarket owners banking super profits, NBR Rich List shows

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/106288425/supermarket-owners-banking-super-profits-nbr-rich-list-shows

No need for a pay rise, I think also the bus unions have been unsuccessful in their strikes.

Why would a business pay more, when they don’t have to.

Our government approves 150,000 temp work permits per ANNUM being put through NZ and the people PAY for the job or the fake degree while the locals become the working poor or better off on benefits!

“Glen Innes Pak n Save owner, who’s worth an estimated $65 million, is currently paying one of the lowest rates as far as collective agreements go in Auckland supermarkets.

The Union is currently bargaining at Hastings Pak n Save where workers recently had to resort to a strike action following a miserable offer, several pickets have also been held at the store. At mediation, the owner offered a 0% pay rise for the 2018 year.”

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1808/S00537/oh-thats-where-they-get-their-profits-from.htm

Likewise paying for an intern permit to work in a hotel at minimum wages… The NZ government is happy for these people to profit to both lower the wages and conditions while also making the NZ tax payers pay or subsidise the health, education, accomodation and other benefits going forward for the migrant workers upon residency and keep approving the schemes for NZ visas, which keeps the internment, student and temp work visa Ponzi’s, going.

“The students paid up to $6000 each to Wellington company Internship New Zealand to come here to gain international experience.

They were then employed as housekeepers by cleaning company AHS, which services rooms at the Grand Mercure in Wellington.

The students told Newshub they had been forced to doctor time sheets so some of their hours are not being paid and had their wages unfairly docked.”

This person paid $30k for a NZ work visa… to work cash and now dead on the job.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/117551892/death-of-a-migrant-under-the-table-workers-building-aucklands-multimillion-dollar-homes

These people paid $45k to get a visa and job in NZ
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/rotorua-holiday-park-owner-to-pay-record-sum-for-nightmare-worker-exploitation.html

Paying some very dubious people to work in NZ and give crims work for residency.
Bakery owner to pay back $33,800 illegally deducted from worker’s wages

“Singh worked as a baker from 2011 till February 2017, when he left the job. About four months later, Singh was arrested in Henderson on three charges of assault and one charge of a threat to kill.

A psychiatric assessment revealed Singh was a regular user of methamphetamine and had experienced a psychotic episode. Singh also served a sentenced of ten weeks in prison.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/112128450/bakery-owner-to-pay-back-33800-illegally-deducted-from-workers-wages

This list goes on and on in NZ… have yet to see anybody in the government or media try to do anything useful to solve new migrants making money from fake degrees/work/marriages, in fact they seem to be encouraging crims or non income people to come to NZ to get benefits on fake jobs that only exist to make money from migrants paying to work there.

endless list of people being caught which will only be the tip of the iceberg but the government and media keep burying the problem which like the environment is getting worse and worse.

Sikh temple to pay $100k for breaching employment laws
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/117040153/sikh-temple-to-pay-100k-for-breaching-employment-laws

22 restaurants, 120 staff – and now a $40,000 fine
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12014023

The Big Scam: ‘Marriages for sale’ in alleged visa rort
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/108067804/the-big-scam-marriages-for-sale-in-alleged-visa-rort

Indian restaurant bosses fined for exploitation
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/287183/indian-restaurant-bosses-fined-for-exploitation

Indian businesses ‘sell’ jobs for visas to students
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/336687/indian-businesses-sell-jobs-for-visas-to-students

The Indian women paying for a NZ education with their freedom
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/voices/audio/2018636396/the-indian-women-paying-for-a-nz-education-with-their-freedom

Immigration marriage and dowry scams on the rise, says charity
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12123831

Wake up GREENS and anyone else who wants their kids to have a liveable planet 2030! Is this what giving the Natz questions in parliament and working with industry has achieved as so called goals?

This is from the Greens,

“Today, our Government asked New Zealanders to have a say on three big ideas for more climate action. But we need your help to them over the line.

Ending coal, with an end date of 2030 for coal used in boilers, as we move towards 100% renewable energy by 2035.

(MOVING TOWARDS RENEWABLE ENERGY IN 15 YEARS… even the third world is moving faster than that)

Putting a price on pollution by strengthening the Emissions Trading Scheme so industry cuts its emissions.

(PRICING POLLUTION NOT ENDING IT – another go at keeping pollution at peak capacity but arguing over what monetary price destroying the planet is)

Pushing energy efficiency to the next level by prompting energy companies and other industries to take responsibility for efficiency gains.”

(PROMOTING BUSINESS TO VOLUNTARY RESPONSIBILITY – has never worked and there is a lot more to be done than efficiency gains)

Environmentalists working with big business and industry leads to never never thinking, and the above headlines, with voluntary standards that go nowhere, endless dates of the future to do something, more creatures extinct, worse water, land and air quality, while the so called government environmentalists are in a meeting with business heads…

Really, really underwhelming when the Greens and Labour press releases and goals seemssimilar to the Natz approach to pretend to be doing something with distractions and limited scope, while most environmental practises get worse and worse!

Labour have done nothing for the environment either! Big disappointment that even the Green Party goals have been scaled back to nothingness.

“A dam illegally constructed in an Auckland Council reserve is set to be lowered before Christmas, but not removed

The impact of an illegally-constructed dam has been described by the Environment Court as “critical” for New Zealand’s most endangered bird but its removal will be a slow process, with the company which built it unlawfully setting most of the terms.”

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/12/19/953508/dam-delays-half-soon-half-later-maybe

Harbour of doubt: The tiny creek that drains Auckland of its waste

“St Lukes mall, one of the single biggest contributors of sewage into Meola, and likely among the biggest overflow points in the country.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/117958444/harbour-of-doubt-the-tiny-creek-that-drains-auckland-of-its-waste

No plan to tackle environmental degradation by increased tourism – Commissioner

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/405767/no-plan-to-tackle-environmental-degradation-by-increased-tourism-commissioner

“Protesters are vowing direct action in southern waters after oil giant OMV was yesterday cleared to drill up to 10 exploration wells off the Otago coast beginning this summer.”

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/mayor-slams-drilling-approval-farce?fbclid=IwAR0pg_haSht_L8zIPWhj2D-ph2d6CJb5yMAqp6BMozpjpjlofFpZuYFfylc

Appeals against Chinese water bottling plant dismissed

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118255435/appeals-against-chinese-water-bottling-plant-dismissed

EPA grants drilling and discharge consent for Otago coast to oil and gas company OMV

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118277477/epa-grants-drilling-and-discharge-consent-for-otago-coast-to-oil-and-gas-company-omv

“Directors of Tamarind Taranaki, the New Zealand business of a Malaysian oil and gas producer say the company “may be insolvent”.

Tamarind operates three oil fields according to its website, Tui, Amokura, and Pateke in the Tui Area oil field. It is the 100 per cent owner and operator of the fields.

The company’s business model is to buy oil fields late in their production life.

When buying fields off other companies, Tamarind assumes responsibility for any remediation costs when the field is closed.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12284777

Dairy firm wants ocean wastewater outfall
https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/dairy/dairy-firm-wants-ocean-wastewater-outfall

EPA’s ‘inappropriate’ reaction to student’s speech
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117378375/epas-inappropriate-reaction-to-students-speech

Palm oil giant Wilmar goes to full control of Goodman Fielder

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12211787

Great we have the Greens in parliament and Jacinda’s nuclear free moment of climate change on the forefront! Sarcasm.

Maybe a bit underwhelming from COL on the environment which is only slightly better than the Natz wanting to turn NZ into a slave colony and pollution factory in the Pacific run by their favourite donors?????

Illustrated here.