Maccas admits to cheating workers of holiday pay
What is sad is just how hard it is sometimes to get these big, profitable multinationals to even obey the law!
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St John management applies tourniquet to workers’ throats
Charitable organisation, St John, which operates ambulance services nationwide, as well as other medical services, has been engaging in anti-worker actions during recent industrial negotiations to conclude a collective agreement.
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If St Johns treated their patients as badly as they do their workers the ambulances would be hearses – why hasn’t this been Nationalised?
I’ve never understood why ambulance services became user pays. It seems barbaric to me that if you are in need of safe and immediate transport to a medical facility because of a medical emergency, charging for that is neoliberal cruelty.
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Why Pike River Mine matters and why we owe the families
What Winston, the Greens and Labour all understand and appreciate about the Pike River Mine is how utterly responsible we all are as a civil society for the deaths there.
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – Governments cant organise workers, only unions can
2016 has been another year of decreasing membership for the Union movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Many Unionists will blame this on an anti-worker government. It is true that the Key is government has had a pro-business agenda. But to focus on government as the defining challenge of the union movement can be unhelpful
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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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Unite – Another National Party list MP to be target of protests for justice for Indian students
We Want Justice Third protest in space of just a month is planned for the international Indian students in New…
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Tasers Deployed at a Peaceful Protest by International Students
The international Indian students facing unfair deportations in New Zealand continue their fight for justice as they protest for the…
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You won’t believe what Talley’s are doing to their workers now
…Talley’s claims this over the top reaction was because they are so focused on safety which is hilarious when you consider they had no problem sending workers into fishing ships to get poisoned or their lax attitude towards decapitation.
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GUEST BLOG: Joseph Costello – My Sistema nightmare
On my first day I was immediately shocked that nobody was there to greet me and show me the area I would be assigned to work at. It was a very sloppy introduction. I had absolutely no clue where I was meant to be working.