GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce Day 12: How are our Nurses Coping?
I asked them about how nurses were being treated before the crisis and now…. and what they hoped for once we have put this pandemic behind us.
New Zealand Politics
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MUST READ: A Lamentable Failure of Imagination
WHEN MATTHEW HOOTON is able to outflank the “Left” effortlessly on RNZ’s Nine-to-Noon something has gone very seriously wrong.
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MEDIA WATCH: John Campbell grills an incredibly uncomfortable David Clark
When John Campbell is personally disappointed in you, it’s the worst thing in the world.
I’d prefer low level amputation than have to go through what he righteously did to David Clark this morning.
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Post World war Two: A note on Minimum wages and a universal family benefit
In 1946, the year after the end of World War Two, New Zealand introduced a minimum wage that was 83% of the average wage and a universal family benefit of 10 shillings a week for every child. This benefit was made universal, tax-free and not means-tested.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – IF GOD DEFENDS NEW ZEALAND; WHO DEFENDS CHINA?
As BOMBER’s 4 April blog attests; he received a whacking 350 likes from 4102 views, when I last checked the monitor….
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Actually – we need a petition to pay Jacinda MORE
Dick move to demand Jacinda take a pay cut…
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BREAKING: SkyCity redundancies: Union leader loses job – no consultation, no options, sacked as of today.
SkyCity has broken the law by sacking hundreds of workers as of today with no consultation or discussion. Salaried managers at SkyCity were told on Friday that their jobs would finish today. Their letter of notice states clearly that the decision has already been made and there will be no consultation or consideration of any alternatives or other options.
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Why Jacinda MUST keep us locked up for 6 weeks
You know that if the virus re-ignites after Jacinda comes back at 4 weeks, she will get attacked for coming out too early by the very same voices who are demanding she do that now.
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The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce: GUEST BLOG: Day 10 Interview with Nobel Prize Wiinning Economist Muhammad Yunus
As we contemplate what kind of society we want New Zealand to be in the post-pandemic era, Yunus challenges us with the question – What is the purpose of doing business anyway?
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A time for new values?
As with the myth about economic growth being a rising tide that lifts all ships, it’s also not true that the falling tide effects all workers equally. Some of the CEOs on multi-million-dollar salaries who were paid – and failed- to anticipate business disruption, face a cut to their incomes, but workers lose their whole livelihoods.