Quarterly Employment Survey
The Quarterly Employment Survey out today shows that 46,700 jobs disappeared between December and March. That’s 2.6% of jobs gone in a single […]
Economy
workers’ rights
International Workers’ Day
If you’re in Auckland tonight get along for the annual May Day march up Queen Street. Poster below. More events, including for other […]
Lane Walker Rudkin
I see poor management and a bitter marital tiff have put the jobs of 470 workers at Lane Walker Rudkin on the line […]
Public holidays
If a Public Holiday falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, we should get the day off on the following Monday instead, like […]
Fox firing at will
From Finsec’s blog, …the gossip: Fox TV is taking television to a new low with a new show with the working title Someone’s […]
Strike at MIT
Members of the Tertiary Education Union at the Manukau Institute of Technology are striking. A TEU member explains the dispute: Basically lecturers at […]
Finsec petition: Make jobs a condition of bank guarantees
Does it strike anyone else as odd that at a time when taxpayers are guaranteeing the banking system with public funds, banks have […]
Oh no, not Sweden!
If you’ve been watching your Fox News, you know that the US is turning socialist. It’s going to be Sweden any day apparently. […]
Solution
Keeping with the topics of the day thus far – Air New Zealand and pay packets – a solution to the Zeal320 dispute occurs […]
PM’s pay
Interesting question over at Big News: In 1998, just 10 years ago,the Prime Minister was paid $185,000. The speaker was paid $126,000. A […]
High quality government spending
I suppose the Herald means for us to recoil in horror at the headline “$325,000 bill to save 57 jobs” but I’m fine […]
Transparency
The Government announced two nine day fortnights today. Interestingly, they’re refusing to tell us who one of them is. From the Government’s press […]
Workers stand up to exploitative bosses
Head of the Unite union, Matt McCarten, writes about the Synovate lockout and how foreign-owned businesses try to exploit New Zealand workers: [The] […]
Synovate lockout lifted
Indymedia reports that the lockout at research company Synovate has been lifted and a settlement has been reached: Late last night, union and […]
Barbaric
Restaurant Association chairman Mike Egan on how to treat your staff during a recession: “if some of our employees cannot adapt fast enough […]
Workers locked out – bosses locked in
Forwarded to us from Indymedia: Call centre workers at Synovate in South Auckland were today locked out by their employer. The workers had […]
Herald tells Kiwis to bend over
The Herald’s article this morning on how to ‘Future-proof your job in the recession’ tells Kiwi workers to bend over for your boss […]
Talleys: Corporate scum
I’ve long been of the opinion that the Talley family, owners of the Talleys food empire, are a corrosive force in this country […]
National dumps worker reps from ACC board
Nick Smith announced National’s changes to the ACC board this afternoon. As expected they’ve kicked Wayne Butson and Ross Wilson off the board, […]
Time for Fyfe to go
It’s time for Bill English, as shareholding minister in Air New Zealand, to tell the AirNZ board that either they fire CEO Robert […]
Standing up
This week Sealord confirmed it would lay off 130 staff to improve its already healthy return on capital. The other 400 have been […]
Gulp
The Key/English odd couple continue to give us a sweet and sour mix of messages – one with rosy promises that the recession will […]
Stunning
This is just stunning: Mr Key was yesterday questioned about an employment situation where a person was offered a job paying $40,000 a […]
Clawback
That’s John Key speaking about Labour’s new fourth week of leave legislation back when the Nats thought they were going to win in […]
Jobs rally in Nelson this Saturday
The Service and Food Workers Union is organising a rally and march in Nelson on Saturday (21 March) in support of Sealord workers […]
Key on wages
Key’s speech to the CTU today showed an interesting inight into how he thinks you lift wages. NZPA reports: He said it was […]
A fairer 9 day fortnight
National’s 9-day fortnight will save only 2-3% of the jobs that are expected to be lost in the recession. It’s a trifling investment […]
Campbell on the nine day fortnight
Gordon Campbell’s pretty scathing of Key’s nine day fortnight scheme in his latest article at Scoop, describing the announcement as a sign workers […]
CTU busts ACC spin
Over the last week or so the Government, and Nick Smith in particular, have run a dishonest PR campaign to undermine ACC and […]
About right
Good to see Emerson’s back in form.
Sealord email campaign
The Service and Food Workers Union has launched an online email campaign to urge Sealord Chairman Robin Hapi to reconsider axing 180 workers […]
Bennett’s lame excuse
Morning Report asked Paula Bennett why the public sector had been cut out of the 9 day fortnight scheme this morning and her […]
Brief thoughts on the 9 day fortnight
The 9 day fortnight scheme has finally been announced but I’ve got a few questions: Why do the taxpayer and the worker have […]
Strawman
I’m always amazed at the intellectual hoops the neoliberal right will jump through to try and deny low income workers minimum wage increases. […]
The Take
Following my post yesterday about the EPMU’s film on the recession, Socialist Aotearoa has alerted me to the fact The Take is now […]
Explaining the recession
The EPMU have released a short film on youtube explaining the recession and their response to it. It features Brian Easton, Gareth Morgan, […]