The faulty logic behind Roger Douglas’ bill to cut the wages of young workers could just as easily be applied to any number of groups hit hard by the recession – Maori, students, men, dropouts, singles, people in Northland. What if we were to change a couple of key words in his bill?
Two industrial relations bills from the Right were pulled from the ballot today.
The first, Roger Douglas’ bill to restore youth rates, is just the usual ACT Party kick the poor stuff.
But Tau Henare’s bill on strike ballots is just plain stupid.
No chance some gang f#ckwits would be deterred by longer sentences.
What happened to that plan of Key’s to end whaling?
How do we get a high wage economy when National opposes each and every wage rise?
When you’ve got a Finance Minister who can’t get stats right, a Social Welfare Minister who can’t define her flagship policy, and an Education Minister who can’t explain her flagship policy, it’s easy for an incompetent Women’s Affairs Minister to slip through.
Paying a person doing the same work as another person less money because of their sex or religion or ethnicity or any other grounds […]
Over the last month or so National’s pollster David Farrar has been running a series of posts desperately trying to pin the spike […]
30 years ago, according to John Key, wages in Australia and New Zealand were the same. Since then New Zealand wages have stagnated […]
Remember how John Key said he “would love to see wages drop“. You might remember the big corporate media refused to run it, […]
The latest round of the Labour Cost Index is out and it shows that the nation’s 400,000 union members are the workers holding […]
It fascinates me that in all this talk about ‘catching up with Australia’ via tax cuts, nobody bothers to look at the Aussie […]
An interesting piece on the SST yesterday: English has warned public servants such as teachers and nurses not to expect pay increases that […]
About a month ago I used the Stats NZ Labour Cost Index to come up with the approximate distribution of payrises for unionised […]
Check out Phil Goff’s general debate speech yesterday on In The House, a handy new site paid for by the Office of the […]
If you can, get along to support the hospital support staff, the school support staff, and all the other low-paid public sector workers […]
The Labour Cost Index tells us that most workers this year failed to get pay rises to match inflation in the past year. […]
The Unite Halloween-themed $15 minimum wage march went well yesterday. Looks like there were a fair number of people there. Pity there’s no […]
The campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage is gathering pace. Initially, Unite kind of set out on their own on this […]
Saw this article on Stuff yesterday: Employers and employees have dramatically different opinions of why workers remain in their jobs, says research released […]
John Key says that if school support staff want pay-rises then teachers should sacrifice the ones they bargained for. Tell him to get […]
Non-political staff Parliamentary Service are in industrial action. They want to keep their redundancy provisions that were bargained for years ago and get […]
You know, if you look back to all the elections since 1957, there’s only three you would say the Left lost outright – […]
While filling his own pockets with our money, Bill ‘Double Dipton’ English is threatening public sevants with a five-year pay freeze – with […]
Right now, spurred on by the hypocritical words of Bill English and John Key, employers in the public and private sectors are saying they […]
Some good comments from CTU president Helen Kelly in the Dom today on the Government’s posturing over MP pay increases. “The Government is […]
I find the Right’s assumption that the bosses are acting in some greater interest fascinating. There’s this unwillingness to believe that the bosses […]
A good outcome from the Zeal320 dispute. The deal doesn’t quite close the gap between Zeal320 workers and other AirNZ flight attendants but […]
You’ve heard about the Telecom dispute. But while a lot of the focus has been on what it means for the lines engineers […]
Unemployment has shot up to 133,500, nearly doubling in 18 months. But that’s not the whole story. The official ‘unemployed’ are only the […]
Today the Household Labour Force Survey, which includes the official measure of unemployment, will be out. The headline number is expected to be […]
Now, yesterday a couple of righties didn’t want to believe the evidence in front of their eyes that the GDP per person gap […]
It was excellent to see Phil Goff laying down the gauntlet to Key yesterday. He announced Labour’s policy to temporarily relax partner means […]
As you know, things are tough in the job market at the moment. The firm figures won’t be out until later this month […]
Is he named for the great economist John Maynard Keynes or Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan? Either way, he speaks a lot of sense: […]
Yesterday in Question Time, Bill English sent a message loud and clear to teachers, police, doctors, nurses, and all other public servants (‘frontline’ […]
She’s really trying her best. Even with only one news cycle to go, Melissa Lee is still out there, working hard to get […]
