Nurses.
There’s a sickness affecting our health system.
Economy
workers’ rights
Hate Speech Coalition Cans Canadian’s Crusade
BREAKING NEWS:
Alt Reich hate speech tour CANCELLED
Helen Kelly: Together
In 2015 Helen Kelly agreed to let documentary maker Tony Sutorius – the award winning director of Campaign – into her life to document her last year of activism. The result is Helen Kelly: Together – a stunning affirmation of both her dedication to justice, and her friendships with those she fought alongside.
Is Matthew Hooton becoming a socialist?
Occasional Standard reader Matthew Hooton has written a cogent column on industrial relations in which he realises and accepts that wages for ordinary workers are too low.
No Mates National
Peter Dunne has some sage advice for National; phone a friend. If you can find one.
The teachers’ strike
Teachers have indicated they will also be seeking a significant catch up in salaries and job conditions after a decade of neglect.
Families Package and Auckland Regional Fuel tax kick in
Labour’s Family Package and the Auckland Regional Fuel tax have both kicked in.
Arses and Elbows
Deserving workers and undeserving workers in the public service.
updated
Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote
Barry Soper in the Herald has fallen for National’s fake news concerning something said by Jacinda Ardern that was taken totally out of context.
Shock horror, National is telling fibs about Labour’s Industrial Relations policy
National has claimed that Jacinda Ardern ruled out national strikes during the last year’s election campaign. And has trimmed a video and taken comments out of context to justify its claim.
Jessica Williams tweets about the stupidity of the Taxpayer’s Union
Twitter in the right hands can be a very dangerous thing. As shown by Jessica Williams when she questioned the intellectual grunt of the taxpayers union in this series of tweets.
Government announces living wage to be paid to all core public servants
The Government has announced that all employees in the core public service will be paid a living wage from September 1, 2018.
Is it OK to bring a hand grenade to a business meeting?
Darien Fenton writes about Business New Zealand’s early approach to the Fair Pay panel.
Fair Pay Agreements – a no-brainer
Remember when you could pay a mortgage, keep the kitchen cupboard full, take the kids to the movies now and then, by working as a bus driver, a freezing worker, a journalist, or any number of other solid middle-Kiwi jobs? When a decent working life was a given…
Forward to the 70s
National thinks that getting back to full employment, having wages and conditions sufficient to allow a working family to live in decency on one full time wage, and home ownership rates of about 70% are a bad thing.
Were Etu union delegates threatened at a select committee?
National MP Parmjeet Parmar has been accused of threatening to tell the employers of submitters to a Select Committee what they had said in evidence if they did not withdraw their statements.
Comrade Simon supports Nurses Strike
For the first time possibly ever a National leader has supported the right of the rank and file to engage in industrial action to improve their living conditions.
Fudget for Austerity
Some proposals on why we just got the budget we did.
Bridges believes in trickle down
Simon Bridges has committed the twin political sins of not only believing in trickle down but in publicly confirming his belief.
Squeeze
This is as good a year as it is going to get to squeeze your employer for a fair wage.
Radical Socialism
‘nother guest post by Nick Kelly (Upper Hutt boy in London)
Thank you Metiria.
Some movement on social security (a thing we all deserve)
Workers’ Rights. Our Rights. And a Government Breaking Bad.
Time for the government to pull its head in.
Professional identity-Why it matters or Why we are being screwed by the Government
A personal perspective on the repercussions of the government’s current approach to Social Work and Social Workers.
Mike Hosking reckons: Minimum wage increase will be terrible for everyone
Mike Hosking reckons that an increase in the minimum wage will increase housing unaffordability and cause job losses and business closures.
Auckland Rail Industrial Action
RMTU members are working to rule to oppose Auckland Transport and Transdev’s attempts to weaken security arrangements on Auckland’s trains.
Where’s my share?
Had anyone with a job (other than the top 2 tiers of management) had a wage increase higher than inflation recently?
Stop Using the ‘F’ Word.
Because words matter.
Trickledown …
Over in America Republican intellectual genius Paul Ryan tweeted how a School teacher who will receive $1.50 extra per week because of Republican tax cuts was grateful for the increase. But it did not go down well …
NZ Court of Appeal and the Ministry of Health
The government has a responsibility to act fairly, centre its services around the needs of people, and treat NZ citizens as human beings.
Getting it right
Council of Trade Unions President Richard Wagstaff writes in the NZ Herald about why paying people peanuts is bad for everyone. Highly recommended reading.
Rimutaka Prison.
Who are the bigger criminals?
Updated.
NRT: Not good enough
“The government today announced some employment relations reforms, including the restoration of meal breaks and the right to collective bargaining. But they also plan to retain 90 day trial periods for small businesses“
Employment Relations changes announced
The Government has announced changes to the Employment Relations law which on the whole are positive and beneficial for workers. But following New Zealand First lobbying the 90 day fire at will provision will be retained for small firms.
The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership
The positive aspects of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership.
Solidarity
History not forgotten.