The systematic corporate theft of workers holiday pay which was first publicly identified on The Daily Blog in February this year, could result in up to $2 billion in back pay for hundreds of thousands of workers in New Zealand.
The launch of the MoU may have been rushed, clumsy and with little detail so as to avert a strategic change of position for the Greens, but Andrew’s performance helped prove that a union together was better than cross bench neutrality.
I, as did many frontline prison guards, knew the absence of tobacco would raise the level of violence that it would bring. Your risk of being assaulted/injured would outweigh the health benefits. That’s why the smoking in a prison context is fundamentally different than anywhere else.
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Upper Hutt, NZ, 4 June – Residents in a State housing community in Upper Hutt are continuing to mobilise to strengthen opposition to planned sell-off of Housing NZ vacant land, and planned further demolition of so-called “un-safe, earthquake-prone” State houses.
Way back towards the start of the year, when questions about what role NZ First might potentially play in and…
Andrew Little needed to go to the Mountain Top with this speech to the Green Party AGM – and he delivered one of his best speeches ever
435 lies by John Key since he took office