1. Industrial roundup: Open Country

    Last week the Employment Court decided that Talleys-owned Open Country was acting illegally in locking out its unionised staff. The Court upheld the […]

  2. No bull

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    An interesting take on the Crafars from Bernard Hickey in the Herald. He starts off: The Crafar Farms tragedy is a microcosm of […]

  3. Open Country shows contempt for the law

    The Talleys and National Party linked Open Country Cheese continues to show its contempt for the law as it attempts to break the […]

  4. Open Country now assaulting workers

    The Talleys-owned Open Country Cheese dispute took a new turn today after it was revealed that a senior manager, not content with just […]

  5. Farmers Weekly on Open Country

    Reader sent in this cartoon from the latest NZ Farmers Weekly. Things have got to be bad for Open Country when even the […]

  6. Nat-linked company tries to bully workers

    The Open Country Cheese dispute is getting nastier by the day. The workers began their eight-day strike last week. The Talley’s and National […]

  7. Open Country polluting our rivers too

    The Talleys and National Party-linked Open Country Cheese is currently trying to run its factory without its workers as it attempts to bust […]

  8. Corporate bully-boys step it up a level

    The Open Country Cheese dispute is underway. Workers are striking against the bosses’ attempts to casualise their hours and reduce their conditions. They […]

  9. Lockout at Bridgeman Concrete

    Last week I wrote: We’re seeing a new pattern in work relations emerging. The big employers, emboldened by having their party in power […]

  10. National-linked dairy company threatens six week lockout

    There’s a nasty dispute brewing at Open Country Cheese involving a six week lockout threat, some highly aggressive anti-union PR, calls for the […]

  11. Fisking Farrar

    I don’t know what it is about the word “Labour” that the right finds so hard to understand. David Farrar has a piece […]

  12. Questions

    We should expect National as the political arm of business to surround itself with dirty money and conflicts of interest. As a self-proclaimed […]

  13. Same old faces, same old tactics

    Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers’ faces […]

  14. They just don’t learn

    I see the Free Speech Coalition hasn’t learned anything from the ramshackle PR fiasco that was their launch and have posted up another […]

  15. Shadbolt campaign funded by Hollow Men

    Remember how I asked who was funding Tim Shadbolt’s campaign to “bring down the government”? Turns out the Southland Times was interested too […]