Unite still enforcing workers rights in fast food industry
McDonald’s in New Zealand has signed a new three-year collective agreement with Unite Union after union members voted 97% in favour.
New Zealand Politics
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Waatea News Column: Maori Party asks Simon Bridges where are the Maori voices?
Last week, Māori Party Co-leader and Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Debbie Ngarewa-Packer demanded to know where the Maori voices on…
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Level 2 is the end of the first chapter, so curb your enthusiasm
Talk that the economy will ‘bounce back’ seems inanely optimistic to me
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – WHAT THE HELL is going on in Auckland Women’s Prison [ARWCF]?
Even in low security [LS2] prisoners were locked at 4 pm Saturday, 9 May,and not unlocked until 3.30 pm Sunday. [Locked again at 4 pm] so only had half an hour out of cell for exercise/phonecalls etc]. They were unlocked at 8.30 am this morning and will be locked again at 9 am for the whole day meaning they wont be unlocked until tomorrow morning.
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Does NZME’s last gasp for newspaper monopoly spell doom for Stuff?
Clearly NZME knows something that the rest of the market doesn’t.
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WINZ cruelty vs MSD malice vs Housing NZ meth hysteria vs Corrections spite: what’s worse, what’s the same?
We have a contempt for the vulnerable with official agencies that seem to delight in the abuse of rights.
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Matthew Hooton’s Selectivity
A good communicator and propagandist uses the pretence of reasoned argument to obscure their ulterior motives and manipulative persuasion techniques.
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The two Jacinda’s and hoping for a radicalism befitting our age
‘Courageous Jacinda’, when catastrophe has allowed compassionate leadership and Jacinda has taken the country with her. And ‘Cautious Jacinda’, when it’s come to delivering on Labour’s initial policy promises and hopes and goals.
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“We have put them on ice” – the climate crisis, child poverty, mental wellbeing & lifting Maori/Pacific incomes
Once again the most helplessly exposed of our citizens – those locked in generational deprivation in a land of plenty – have been sent to the back of the queue.
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EXCLUSIVE: Dr Liz Gordon – We have been ZoomBombed by CyberNazis!
The morning session started. There were three speakers, but before they got a chance to start, we had an unwelcome visitor.