Dave Macpherson: The Fox is in the chicken run again!
GOVT APPOINTS DHB & MoH GROUP TO ADVISE WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH INQUIRY RECOMMENDATIONS….
Read More →SkyCity union supports Pride Parade
Skycity Employees Assocation of Unite Union is disappointed to learn via media that the Skycity Company is pulling out of the Pride Parade. SEA-Unite will be marching in solidarity with LGBT workers “no matter what”, says SEA-Unite convenor Joe Carolan. “We welcome the return of campaigning politics against all forms of discrimination and oppression to […]
Read More →GUEST BLOG: PHILIP PATSTON: Our justice system – no guns or big guns – and nothing in between
What troubled me about this was that I had only two choices in terms of alerting someone to the obviously unusual experience of having a stranger come to my door asking for a cigarette: to do nothing or call the Police. It concerns me that there are only “no guns or big guns”, and nothing in between.
Read More →EXCLUSIVE SCAM INVESTIGATION: Dr Liz Gordon – Healing the poor with Kangen water
The participants were mainly Māori and Pasifika, also two people with significant illnesses, one bloke who was morbidly obese (250kg, perhaps) and one very sceptical Dr Liz Gordon. My friend had heard good things about the therapeutic qualities of this water. I did a bit of work on the internet before I went (got right to the point, searching ‘Kangen water scam’) and knew what to watch for.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – RACISM STILL RULES
The best answer gets an iceblock. The brainiest answer gets the wrapper.
Read More →Dr Liz Gordon – What it is like in prison
Ole Bomber who runs this site lost his toys the other day over Kate Hawkesby’s discourse of contempt around prisoners. Or, as he so poetically put it, the “boorish bruise of the very barbarism they (people like her) claim to recoil from”.
Read More →Dr Liz Gordon – Drugs, crime and the stuffing of our prisons
This situation has reached crisis point – the prisons are overwhelmed by people who have mental illness, addictions to alcohol and drugs, and/ or both. 90% of the prison population has one or other, and 20% both. The number of people in prisons has gone up nearly 500% over 30 years, driven primarily by the surge in the use of illegal substances.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Make Money Über Alles?
A friend has alerted me to a story that I missed when it was printed in the business section of the Oct 07 Press. Just when an Arms Fair was being held in Wellington, promoting the latest in weaponry, the Press ran a story ‘Unease at innovation agreement with Israel’. The story reports on NZ and […]
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Jacinda’s speech – Let’s do this – Labour’s election campaign launched
Jacinda launching her Labour Party election campaign as leader
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Shaw Thing
Now that the dust is settling on the Turei resignation, it might be time to have a dispassionate look at why she had quit as leader of the Greens.
Read More →Migrant workers launch research report on the plight of Filipino dairy workers
migrant workers launch research report on the plight of Filipino dairy workers When: August 19, 1pm onwards Where: FIRST Union conference centre, 1st floor, 120 Church St, Onehunga, Auckland 1061 Who: The Union Network of Migrants What: Research report launch As the government pushes ahead with its plan to implement a “12 month rule” for migrants, despite […]
Read More →Rail union slams Auckland rail operator’s “profit before people” attitude
Rail union slams Auckland rail operator’s “profit before people” attitude The union representing Auckland train crews is slamming the company running Auckland commuter trains, the French-owned Transdev, for excluding workers from a critical safety audit on the basis its health and safety system is “commercially sensitive.” “Transdev wrote to us yesterday saying that […]
Read More →Orchard workers told to drink irrigation water on the job – First Union
Orchard workers who were told to drink irrigation water win the right to filtered water on the job The union representing T&G workers in Kerikeri has won drinkable water for its workers. The victory, a small but important one, comes after the union learned workers were being made to drink irrigation water […]
Read More →Medical emergency on train shows staff critical for public safety – RMTU
Medical Emergency on Train Shows Staff Critical for Public Safety Yesterday’s emergency on a train approaching Auckland’s Britomart station shows the importance of on-board staff for the safety of the travelling public, said the union representing train crews. “Our information is that the timely action of the […]
Read More →Labour’s employment policy gives working people something to vote for – First Union
Labour’s employment policy gives working peope something to vote for The 27,000-strong FIRST Union has described Labour’s newly Employment Policy as giving its members something to vote for. “FIRST Union represents a large number of low paid and vulnerable workers,” said Robert Reid, General Secretary of FIRST Union. “The current employment […]
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