Written By: - Date published: 2:42 pm, May 15th, 2026 - 4 comments
Some initial ideas about the integrated policy package Labour must consider if it is to meet contemporary challenges posed by emerging populism and the narrowing of the Labour vision over the past five decades
Written By: - Date published: 1:43 pm, March 26th, 2026 - 7 comments
Stand with Pike representatives have submitted to the Government that its proposed changes to worker safety laws will make people less safe at work.
Written By: - Date published: 1:22 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 6 comments
This government has an appalling record of large scale business closures, which continue to damage the careers of thousands of New Zealand workers.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 pm, March 16th, 2026 - 25 comments
“There are 23,000 home support workers on low wages who look after our most vulnerable people – the elderly, disabled and injured – every single day who need help urgently, right now. They deserve better than being left to foot the bill” – Fleur Fitzsimons, PSA
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, February 20th, 2026 - 13 comments
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, February 4th, 2026 - 8 comments
Unemployment hits 5.4% in the December quarter, but that doesn’t include the 140,000 plus Kiwi citizens that have fled in the last 2 years
Written By: - Date published: 12:37 pm, February 4th, 2026 - 9 comments
When the coalition is treating the economy as a game, are they having fun?
Written By: - Date published: 4:11 pm, January 30th, 2026 - 27 comments
There is no evidence of immediate improvement in our economy, or of this government improving it.
Written By: - Date published: 2:03 pm, January 29th, 2026 - 9 comments
A year after the Government slashed a third of Health IT jobs the Auckland hospital system has suffered a massive IT outage.
Written By: - Date published: 12:29 pm, December 16th, 2025 - 17 comments
PLUS: Brooke Van Velden overturns historic Supreme Court Uber ruling, after Uber lost their appeal unanimously last month
Written By: - Date published: 4:36 pm, December 9th, 2025 - 3 comments
Privatisation and Plunder is essential reading for those who want to work for a society where prosperity for all is the aim.
Written By: - Date published: 2:21 pm, December 8th, 2025 - 13 comments
That’s the headline of the pamphlet in the letterbox. But from their own measures is that true?
Written By: - Date published: 10:46 am, November 19th, 2025 - 17 comments
On the 15th anniversary of the Pike River disaster Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse will today be speaking to Brook van Velden about the need to preserve and strengthen safety at work laws.
Written By: - Date published: 6:06 am, October 27th, 2025 - 17 comments
On this Labour Day, a massive shout out to all the workers in Southland, Otago and other areas affected by the storms last week. Paid and volunteer, obvious and those in the background doing support for the frontline workers.
Written By: - Date published: 2:05 pm, October 24th, 2025 - 11 comments
Burr unironically asks: “Politics or pay – what’s really behind the mega strike?” without understanding all action is political, and that unions are made up of individual workers who vote
Written By: - Date published: 1:35 pm, October 19th, 2025 - 15 comments
The senior National Party Cabinet Minister has penned an “Open letter to the people of New Zealand” on the New Zealand Government’s official website
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, October 19th, 2025 - 5 comments
An exodus of professionals are leaving – with Kiwi citizens fleeing at levels we haven’t seen in 24 years. These incl. community GPs, doctors & nurses – and Simeon is going after those that remain
Written By: - Date published: 1:02 pm, October 18th, 2025 - 44 comments
While we should acknowledge Jim Bolger’s life of service to New Zealand we should also recognise the critical and continuing damage done to New Zealand by his government.
Written By: - Date published: 9:52 am, August 23rd, 2025 - 16 comments
Brooke Van Velden has announced the appointment of four new members to the Employment Relations Authority and has expressed the wish that compensation payments to workers will be reduced.
Written By: - Date published: 8:55 am, August 21st, 2025 - 22 comments
Partial strike law penalties used on nurses trying to keep themselves safe is emblematic of the wider libertarian playbook within the NZ government
Written By: - Date published: 7:51 pm, August 15th, 2025 - 67 comments
Industry experts say Chris Bishop and his party are to blame, but Bishop denies it, saying construction industry leaders are just “wrong”
Written By: - Date published: 10:43 am, August 2nd, 2025 - 5 comments
A recent dump of papers relating to the cancellation of the Pay Equity scheme suggest that Christopher Luxon was the primary driver behind the decision to do this under urgency.
Written By: - Date published: 7:18 am, July 18th, 2025 - 12 comments
Again, we were woken up by a bunch of hoodrats drifting on the intersection by our house. Great clouds of smoke and lots of noise. As you do at three o clock in the morning, my brain started tying this together with recent articles about private helicopters in urban areas, and other forms of antisocial “Fuck You’s” to the rest of us.
Written By: - Date published: 3:01 pm, June 4th, 2025 - 11 comments
Brooke Van Velden has announced changes to Workplace safety laws that will see prosecutions of Employers decrease but prosecutions of workers start.
Written By: - Date published: 10:48 am, May 28th, 2025 - 26 comments
The challenge posed by migration pressures is real and often underestimated. They are greater today than ever before in modern history.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, May 28th, 2025 - 8 comments
In very bad news for the Government former National MP Marilyn Waring has announced that she will be doing something the Government did not do, organise hearings to consider the Government’s sabotaging of Pay Equity.
Written By: - Date published: 9:38 am, May 24th, 2025 - 22 comments
We don’t know where this country is going and it’s getting worse.
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, May 18th, 2025 - 6 comments
Another science fund bites the dust in New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, May 15th, 2025 - 24 comments
Louisa Wall eviscerates Government claims about pay equity.
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, May 11th, 2025 - 24 comments
Following on from the undermining under urgency of the current Pay Equity scheme the Government intends to introduce the Regulatory Standards Bill which if passed would have a significant adverse effect on collective rights and environmental action.
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, May 10th, 2025 - 58 comments
When the history of the sixth National Government is written I am confident that the events of this week when the Pay Equity system was smashed up will be described as the the beginning of the end.
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