Maritime Union condemns Government’s attack on pay equity and women workers
This isn’t policy — it’s a rollback. Unions warn the Government’s pay equity changes will hit women hardest and undo decades of progress.

This isn’t policy — it’s a rollback. Unions warn the Government’s pay equity changes will hit women hardest and undo decades of progress.

Ten ports. 1,000 workers. One message: enough. As profits soar, Qube workers are taking action — and New Zealand wharfies are backing them.

It’s happening in Australia — but it won’t stop there. Unions warn the crackdown on workers’ rights could spread across the Tasman.
Unions must demand more, the right to strike, a worker levy and open Union membership are ideas they need to build and push if the pathetic union membership rates are ever to be expanded and real inequality challenged.
I call upon ACT Leader, David Seymour, to publicly announce that his party will be putting forward legislation to ban low-income families from having children. He can advise the public how much people must earn before the State will issue a permit to breed.