Stolen holiday leave needs repaying now says Unite Union
Unite Union wants answers from the government as to why hundreds of thousands of workers are still waiting to have…
Author: The Daily Blog
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Political Caption Competition
Heteronormative Patriarchal Ball Tampering
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 27th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Teaching Their Parents Well
Forty years of right-wing counter-revolution has left its mark on the Baby-Boomers. For too many of them it proved a lot easier (and much more profitable) to give up the fight for a kinder, gentler America. For those “of tender years”, the trick will be to convince their parents and grandparents that the March For Our Lives is a march for their lives too.
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Dave Macpherson: What can happen to self-entitled health sector bureaucrats, or what goes round comes round….
Three years ago the stars of four men who had responsibility for the care of our son – and a lot of other people – were in the ascendency: ‘Dr’ Nigel Murray the well-fed DHB CEO; Bob Simcock the laid-back DHB Board Chair; Chai Chuah the bean-counting Health Ministry boss; and ‘Dr’ Jonathan Coleman the ‘all care, no responsibility’ Health Minister.
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Political Caption Competition
Clarke Gayford’s Hipster Lite look didn’t deter the Prime Minister
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 26th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Worse than “fake news” – sloppy news!
Sloppy as in: where a supposedly reputable mainstream media outlet presents a news story, but with a glaring error. Case in point, TVNZ’s story on 25 March, reporting that “$1.7 million of taxpater’s money had been spent last year on airfares and escorts to deport overstayers – more than in any of the last five years”;
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Corrections Is Cramming Them in Tighter Than Sardines!
Corrections is dealing with the muster crisis by double bunking in cells that were not designed to hold more than one prisoner. They have not done this to date because they had legal advice and know that putting two prisoners in cell so small they barely have room for one is a recipe for disaster and may very well contravene section 23 (5) of the Bill of Rights Act which mandates prisoners be treated humanely and with respect for their dignity.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Labour fails 100 days test
We take a look at the promises from the Labour party when campaigning and on taking office – what will these really deliver for working people? As we argued in previous issues of Class Struggle, Labour forming a Coalition with openly capitalist parties means it cannot claim anymore to be a party that represents workers.