The true insidiousness of what Banks really do in NZ
Ever been at the bank and they tried to upsize your loan or hassle you to bring your Kiwisaver to them? Ever been cold called to see if you want a credit card? Want life insurance with that??
If so, you have been on the receiving end of the insidious sales targets culture in the banking industry.
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These businesses glean much liberal kudos from their contributions to the greater good. “For every plastic bag you don’t use we plant a tree in the Amazon”. “We sponsor an underprivileged South Auckland teenager in the arts”. But these businesses are noticeably silent on workers rights and pay.
Read More →“Even though my hours are being cut, my rent doesn’t get cut to compensate” – Why are workers kept hungry for hours?
Many workers are reporting they are “hungry for hours” as casual, minimal and zero hours contracts are on the increase in major retail and fast food chains.
Read More →Poverty in our backyard a national disgrace
This was the second year I had volunteered for the annual Auckland Action Against Poverty (AAAP) ‘Impact’ – a three day event where a number of volunteers from all over New Zealand provide advocacy for beneficiaries at one Work and Income branch. This year was Mangere.
Read More →Employers liquidating companies to avoid paying minimum entitlements
It’s important that we’re engaging with the community and asking how do we want to have migrant workers treated in New Zealand and how can we structure our laws and our society in a way that does not allow people to be exploited by these companies.
Read More →Save our homes – stop the evictions!
While rental prices continue to rise beyond the reach of beneficiaries and low paid workers , the government are now profiting from selling their responsibility to house people, and evicting people from their homes.
Read More →ABBOTS ROYAL COMMISSION TO BUST UNIONS
Use of union money must be carefully managed. If and where there is genuine misuse of union funds , those in power must be held accountable by their membership. But make no mistake, this is no moralistic crusade from a government that cares about workers , its a cynical and shameful move intended to divide and conquer the working class.
Read More →$60 a start, but welfare reforms must go too
Labour’s new “Best Start” policy of an extra $60 a week would be a welcome reprieve for hungry families. Yet any real improvements for the 600,000 Kiwis living below the poverty line will mean getting rid of National’s welfare reforms.
Read More →The death of Ariel Sharon – Gaza’s prison warden
On hearing of the death of Ariel Sharon I thought about Gaza, where I visited in 2012 . The people of Gaza are trapped in a giant prison and Sharon was the one who locked the gates.
Read More →“Better to starve fighting than starve working” – the taxi driver hunger strike
When I first heard of some taxi drivers at Auckland Airport going on hunger strike I instinctively thought “We don’t do that here”. It seemed impossibly radical, surely there were other options that would be more effective in a New Zealand context?
Read More →Time to let more refugees settle in New Zealand?
Letting more refugees resettle in New Zealand does not solve the root causes of these wars. The onus is still on us all to put a stop to the needless imperialist wars and subsequent death and displacement.
Read More →Employers not listening to workers is a matter of life and death
It is tiresome and infuriating engaging in a daily battle with employers who refuse to accept this basic premise and continue to treat their workforce with suspicion and disdain – whatever the cost.
Read More →Organizing insecure workers
How do we keep workers involved when they’re not working? The answer may partly lie in supporting organising the unemployed.
Read More →In Praise of Every Day Defiance
Challenging power – whether it’s a bully at work, your employer, the boss at Work and Income or the gas company – is tough.
Read More →The reality of Poverty under the National Government
After over a decade of being a workers rights advocate as a union organiser nothing could have prepared me for the extent of hopelessness, desperation and frustration that accompanied being an advocate for beneficiaries for one day.
Read More →About Tali Williams
About Tali Williams… I’m a union organiser and have organised for First Union, Finsec, SFWU and EPMU at various times for over a decade. My principle life purpose is working alongside union members to challenge power so there is hope for a better life for us all.
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