The Liberal Agenda – STALIN WASN’T STALLIN’ – WRITERS FESTIVAL CABARET
WHAT: Auckland Writers’ Festival
WHEN: 15-20 May
WHERE: Aotea Centre
Mike Treen
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Wage theft at Maccas – $1 million a year in lieu days or public holiday pay
It has been over three years since we first wrote to the company questioning how they calculated annual leave and asking them to fix it. At first, they simply ignored or rejected our arguments out of hand. We then applied for an Employment Relations Authority hearing on the issue.
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Open letter to new Government: How to find $36 billion for health spending and lower ACC levies at the same time
I explained a few weeks ago that the government had $36 billion in an investment account that could be taken and used to fund the desperate improvements we need in the health sector. They could do this without breaching their self-imposed fiscal responsibility rules.
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Billions owed in leave – Why are we waiting?
Three years ago Unite wrote to all our big employers telling them that they had been miscalculating annual leave payments to their employees for years and they needed to fix it.
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Action is needed no to solve the problems associated with migrant labour exploitation
In the six years to 2017, there were 11,000 cases of migrant exploitation reported to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). Of these only 5700 were investigated and 15o prosecuted. The chances of getting caught and prosecuted for migrant exploitation are infinitesimally small. Exploitative and abusive employers just laugh all the way to the bank.
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Housing for need not speculation
Despite stopping further sales, housing remains one area where the government remains committed to almost a completely market-based solution. For various reasons in this country, housing has become a speculative nightmare with prices beyond what working people can afford.
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Protest today against rip-off of overseas students
A group of Chinese students are demanding that the government help them after NZQA have closed their school and discovered that the owner has stolen most of their money.
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Why Israel is an apartheid state”
I wanted to address an issue that I think is important in terms of the ongoing campaign around human rights for the people of Palestine, justice for the people of Palestine, and that is what is our attitude to the Jewish people in that state of Israel.
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No more prisons – find another way!
The fact that half the prison population in New Zealand is Maori is simply a national scandal that must be ended.
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Pay the full Working for Families package to all low-income families on April 1
The government has announced goals to halve child poverty in three critical measures over the next decade. These are realistic and achievable targets that will be welcomed. However, it is wrong for the government to delay the introduction of their boost to working for families for a further five months until July.