Written By: - Date published: 10:46 am, September 21st, 2007 - 1 comment
Some of you might remember an incident at Subway in Dunedin earlier this year. A young woman who worked there was fired in after management accused her of stealing a free staff drink after she shared it with her friend. They had her arrested and charged with theft. The news traveled widely, there was a […]
Written By: - Date published: 1:11 pm, September 12th, 2007 - Comments Off on Unite ends youth rates at McDonalds
Congratulations to Unite for ending youth rates at McDonalds. Not that you’ll get that story from the media coverage, which gives the impression McDonald’s just decided to give up youth rates to be nice and fails to even mention the role of union campaigns like Supersize My Pay, Youth Rates Suck or Endyouthratesnow. Is it […]
Written By: - Date published: 12:21 pm, September 6th, 2007 - Comments Off on Fairer pay for youth workers
The Herald has the story: Workers aged 16 and 17 will earn the adult minimum wage once they have been in the job three months or worked 200 hours under a law change yesterday. Currently, those under 18 must be paid 80 per cent of the adult minimum wage. But that will change from April […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:39 pm, September 5th, 2007 - Comments Off on He’s whatever you want him to be – except if you’re a worker
John Key’s swallowed a lot of rats to make National look electable: nuclear free, war in Iraq, fighter jets, paid parental leave, climate change etc,etc. But you can always trust a Tory to stay true to type over the one thing that they care about more than anything – cutting workers’ pay and conditions. It’s […]
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 am, September 4th, 2007 - 1 comment
The National Distribution Union‘s put a together a bit of a clip showing some of the struggles its members have been through over the past year. And what a year it’s been. Faced with a month-long supermarket lockout, an attempt by National to strip them of their work rights, the collapse of Feltex and two […]
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, August 29th, 2007 - Comments Off on Gateway Hotel workers still standing strong
Just got these photos in from the picket line at the Airport Gateway Hotel in Auckland, where a dozen low-paid staff have now been locked out for nearly a month for wanting a collective agreement. As you can see from the photos they’re still in high spirits, but after a month without pay they need […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:58 pm, August 24th, 2007 - 3 comments
One of the worrying trends in industrial relations in recent times has been employers’ rediscovery of the lockout as a tool to break the power of organised labour and drive down wages. This is an extreme weapon, designed to starve the workforce into submitting to mangement’s demands, and is based on the brutal logic that […]