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In Christchurch, the Workers Rights Campaign is heavily-involved in collecting signatures for Unite trade union’s petition for a citizens-initiated referendum to increase the minimum wage. Come along and find out about the petition and the other activities of the Workers Rights Campaign. Speaker: Byron Clark (WRC) 6PM, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 WEA, 59 Gloucester St (Map)
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Don Franks Somewhere out there is a strange land with strange customs. The head of an airline in this strange land gets paid $46,100 a week. A bus driver performing the essential job of taking passengers to the airport gets paid $544 a week. This is an experienced bus driver on the top rate. Now
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Reprinted from Kasama. I think what is posed in Medea Benjamin’s interview is a rather simple and important question: Can U.S. imperialism and its troops play a positive role in some circumstances? The U.S. invades the remote and impoverished Afghanistan in 2001, topples the fragile regime of Taliban theocrats (which never consolidated countrywide power in the civil
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Day five of the Auckland Bus Drivers lockout and the workers are still standing firm. The mood on the picket line at the North Shore depot was determined, with drivers saying they are prepared for a showdown that may last two weeks, like their last lockout four years ago. One longstanding driver told us: “When
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Reprinted from the Capital Times. Organising meeting 5pm Wednesday, Collins Room, Student Union Building, Victoria University of Wellington. ONCE upheld as the bastion of liberal thinking in Wellington, Victoria University is turning into a capitalist business, say past students. Workers Party parliamentary aspirant and political activist Don Franks has had a long association with the
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The Spark October 2009 John Edmundson As the recession has bitten, redundancies have risen and unemployment figures have begun to climb, Labour’s Darien Fenton has had her Private Member’s Bill drawn from the ballot. The Bill would enforce a minimum redundancy payout on all employers, starting at four weeks pay after one year of employment.
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The Spark October 2009 Philip Ferguson The recession has been officially declared over, thanks to 0.1% economic growth in the last quarter. The government and various economic experts agree, however, that more jobs will be lost over the next year to 18 months. In The Spark, we’ve consistently argued that the current global recession is
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Reprinted from the PFLP website. To help raise funds for the PFLP, click here. The awarding of U.S. President Barack Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize is an absurdity that undermines any meaning or legitimacy of the prize, said a spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on October 9, 2009. The PFLP spokesperson said that
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Workers Party activists Heleyni Pratley and Joel Cosgrove have been trespassed from Victoria University for two years for participating in a student protest against University fee rises, some of them being of over 90%. The student action was similar to fee-setting protests of the last few years; a small group in the Hunter building chamber holding signs and
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