Silviculture is synonymous with low wages and worker exploitation – First Union
Yesterday, migrant exploitation was exposed in the forestry industry. The Labour Inspectorate has penalised Silviculture Solution Ltd (SSL), an associated…
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Minimum wage a step closer to the Living Wage
The Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand is pleased to see the Government announce an increase in the minimum wage…
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Child Poverty Bill and Wellbeing Budget vital for change – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes both the Government’s first Wellbeing Budget and the passing into law of the Child…
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GUEST BLOG: Murray Horton – Thompson & Clark Just Tip Of Spyberg. Let’s Have An Inquiry Into Whole Covert World Of State Spying
These latest revelations about a whole raft of Government agencies contracting Thompson & Clark to spy on New Zealanders on their behalf are just the latest in a long, sordid history of the State spying on the people. Go back a decade and you’ll find:
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Minimum wage increase a decade overdue and the right thing to do – First Union
The Coalition Government has announced the largest increase to the minimum wage, ever, in its move towards its minimum wage…
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Minimum wage increase overdue – AAAP
The Government announced that it will be increasing the minimum wage from $16.50 to $17.70 per hour, as part of…
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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…
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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?