Thieves, cheats, and crooks – and that’s just the government – Time to go!
By reducing the real value of Working for families payments since 2010 the National government has taken a cumulative $2 billion out of the homes of working class families.
Mike Treen
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New sanctions for migrant exploitation useful but much more needed
The new sanctions involving banning employers temporarily from sponsoring visas to import labour to New Zealand is a useful, but very small step, given the scale of the migrant labour exploitation that exists in New Zealand
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MUST READ: A culture of denial at WINZ is what has put staff at risk
A culture of denying people their rights has infected management layers at WINZ. Targets have been imposed on management for benefit denial and prosecuting those who have allegedly been overpaid for some reason.
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Whistleblower guard stood down by Armourguard Security
Armourguard Security have stood down a security guard from a WINZ site because he complained to his union that the company was not taking the guards health and safety seriously.
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Maccas admits to cheating workers of holiday pay
What is sad is just how hard it is sometimes to get these big, profitable multinationals to even obey the law!
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Twin errors on left in dealing with racism – ignoring class or race
Racism, chauvinism, bigotry, anti-immigrant demagogy, all remain tools to be used by some people – especially those on the right or far right of the political spectrum – to deflect people away from the real cause of the social ills that exist in society.
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$20 an hour now! Make the minimum wage a living wage!
There are widespread and unacceptable levels of poverty in this country and inequality is getting out of control. One way to address those issues in a meaningful way is to progressively increase the minimum wage in real terms.
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Aotearoa’s experience in overcoming racist and other divisions in the workers’ movement (Part 2 of 3)
Many unions seemed to turn the groups inside the unions which had been formed to empower workers from oppressed groups into inwardly focussed talking shops rather than organising centres.
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Confronting racism is key to realising working class unity and power (Part 1)
Genuine class consciousness is needed to fight uncompromisingly for your own rights. You have to understand that your rights as a worker are in opposition to not just your own boss but the whole class of parasites that he belongs to.
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TDB EXCLUSIVE: WINZ bosses murder a beneficiary – Paula Bennet is responsible
I am convinced that is a significant reason fro the high levels of suicide in this country and the rise in absolute poverty reflected in levels of homelessness and the growing numbers of people accessing foodbanks.