Pacific Youth MPs challenge Parliament
Young Pacific MPs have made a bold challenge to parliamentarians in election year at the PYP: Our Movement – Pacific…
Author: The Daily Blog
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Health care workers pay increase – fair-pay or fish-hooks?
When it comes to fish-hooks, National has prior ‘form’. Even when National announces an ‘increase’ in social spending, it often takes that funding from other areas. Even special-needs children are not exempt from National’s shell-scam, as reported in The Daily Blog in August last year;
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Political Caption Competition
Kim Trump-un
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 23rd April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Political Caption Competition
A new bedtime story book for right wing children
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 22nd April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Live stream of KFC, Pizza Hut, Carls Jr and Starbucks workers to strike 12pm today then Cannabis reform protest at 1pm
TDB will live stream the worker strike Auckland: KFC Balmoral, 511 Dominion Rd, at 12pm and then live stream the Cannabis protest at 1pm here live from our Twitter feed on the front page.
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“Better late than never, Jim!” – Bolger on the State of the Unions
JIM BOLGER’S IMPLIED CRITICISM of his own government’s assault on organised labour is astonishing. The Employment Contracts Act 1991 ranks as one of the most extreme examples of anti-union legislation in post-war history. Certainly, the equivalent statutes enacted in the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia pale in comparison. From the legislation introduced by Jim Bolger’s close friend and ally, Bill Birch, even the word “union” was excluded.
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Novel art trail and auction for asylum seekers
Today (April 22) marks the beginning of a novel online art auction to raise funds for the Asylum Seekers Support Trust, which runs an Auckland hostel for asylum seekers.
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Anti-immigration rhetoric blames the victim not the system
Instead of standing of the side of the cultural and capitalist oppressor and adopting its discourse of exclusion and the antagonism of difference, thinking workers of New Zealand, and elsewhere, should show solidarity with other workers and stand for better standards of living and workplace rights. Don’t blame the victim when the system itself is the problem.