Don’t believe the lies about the unaffordability of National Super
Right-wing commentators and big business advocates want to see government spending on any welfare that goes to the people as of right slashed.
Mike Treen
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After John Key – what next?
We must build existing unions and form new ones that are able to struggle much more effectively that we have. We need to forge allies with everyone in the community being exploited and abused. We need community organisations willing to fight as allies.
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MUST READ: Why is Labour walking into a trap?
In New Zealand, however, we are taxed to death and then when we need help we get denied our entitlements by a brutal system that seems dedicated to stopping people gaining access to help when they or other members in their family have an accident or are unemployed, sick, or are born or become disabled.
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System protects corporate thieves, cheats, and killers
The government and IRD seem to get very brave when persecuting some small business person who falls on hard times but run away from a fight with the real big boys who dodge taxes.
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We are told there is no alternative. The so-called “progressives” in social democratic parties then appeal to the centre by adopting the rhetoric of the right wing opposition by being “tough” on law and order and “tough” on welfare cheats, and “tough” on immigrants. They assume that because working people have no where else to go they can abuse us as much as they like.
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90% of chefs no longer eligible for permanent residence
Just a few months ago Andrew Little was attacked by the government for questioning whether New Zealand actually needed so many chefs as part of the skilled migrant category.
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The immigration scam is the one run by the bosses and their government
The immigration scam that exists in the country is the one being run by the government and their capitalist mates to use and abuse migrant labour.
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McDonald’s and BK are zero-hour cheats!
Restaurant Brands and Unite Union have amended their collective agreement to have workers’ hours and shifts guaranteed permanently. Unite National…
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Is technology a threat to our jobs?
The problem with capitalism is not that it displaces human labour with machinery but that it does so in an unplanned and unequal manner.
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Government’s failed response to abuse of migrants (Part 4 of 4)
Unions can expose the hypocrisy of employers demanding the right to import labour while paying a pittance to their staff. But ultimately, the only effective way to turn the situation around is to reunionise the sectors of the workforce that have lost union protection and force the bosses to pay.