This is a military who have smeared journalists, manipulated the truth, told outright falsehoods and have been caught red handed with allegations of war crimes.
Unless Louise Nicholas can be brought on board and to publicly support this appointment, Haumaha is going to have to stand down.
This is welcome news but it should be just the start of a new culture being imposed at WINZ.
He’s a weak link that Iain Lees-Galloway. Ever since he backed away from his party’s solemn promise to repeal the hated “Hobbit Law”, it’s been clear that the guy isn’t what you’d call a tower of union-backing strength. Word is that the MBIE bureaucrats had him house-trained in a matter of days.
Unite represents workers employed by Salmat who is a third party call centre operator currently contracted to provide services to the IRD. This contract was review early this year and Salmat’s services were discontinued to be replaced by temping agency Madison in September.
…by the sacred blood of the zombie Jesus, who would refuse domestic violence survivors time off work?
Why, your friend and mine, the fucking National Party…
Just pause & remember – this is a country that can needlessly blow $100m on meth decontamination, throw people onto the streets, take their kids & fine them all in the midst of a housing/homelessness crisis & NO ONE is held accountable!
This isn’t acceptable, it’s a form of economic apartheid.
David Parker is so scrupulously ethical he makes Golriz Ghahraman look like a cis-white heteronormative Trump supporter, so how on earth the Right in NZ managed to believe that Parker would do anything that wasn’t completely above board is utterly beyond me.
Holding up a pitiful 20% reduction on a policy of spite and cruelty without any reflection on the 20% that have been wrongfully kicked off welfare that number must then represent on the same day another atrocity from IRD & WINZ towards beneficiaries has just been exposed right after the horror the meth hysteria perpetrated against Housing NZ tenants IS NOT A REASON TO CELEBRATE!