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.
Mike Treen
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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.
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The proposed employment law changes
While these changes will make the unions job a little bit easier it will not significantly enhance workers power.
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Take back ACC’s $30 billion in stolen taxes
The government has opened or will be opening, some doors that will enable unions and other progressive movements to push for far more than is currently being offered.
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For a living wage PLUS restoring margins for skills and service
2018 will see Unite Union campaigning to rewrite all new collective agreements to ensure that all workers benefit from the planned increase in the minimum wage to $20 an hour by April 1, 2021.
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Open letter to Russel Creedy from Unite over Alternative holiday theft
It is with great concern that the manipulation of rosters to deny staff alternative holidays at Restaurant Brands has been confirmed to be so widespread that it must have been company policy at a senior level.
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Don’t be grinch at Xmas
The exposure of the theft of alternative holidays – otherwise known as lieu days – by the Wendy’s corporation has opened up a pandora’s box of holiday theft allegations across this and other industries.
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Poverty and inequality won’t be challenged by Tax working group
Last week Statistics NZ released the National Accounts for the year to March 2017, which revealed that working people are receiving only 48.7% of the national pie compared to a peak of 58.7% in 1981.
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Wendy’s must give workers 5 years worth of alternative holidays
The right of workers to an alternative holiday when working on a public holiday has been strongly affirmed in an Employment Relations Authority decision against Wendco (NZ) Limited, the company that operates the Wendy’s stores in New Zealand.
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Answering right-wing dogmas against increasing the minimum wage
Bosses and their paid servants in the so-called economics “profession” are already screaming about the proposed minimum wage hike in New Zealand to $20 an hour by April 2021. Most of their objections amount to the repetition of dogma which they want us to believe is some sort of science. Usually, very few facts are ever advanced to support their views.