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– Nick Kelly Wellington bus drivers continue to struggle against company attacks on their pay and conditions. Tactics employed by NZ Bus include being deceitful about their proposed pay increase, attempting to undermine the high Tramways Union density at the Kilbirnie bus depot, and being disrespectful to union members wishing to attend the recent funeral
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How do you take on a powerful company when over a third of the staff are not in the union? Laurie Garnet finds union members at Auckland’s SkyCity casino are coming up with creative solutions. SkyCity casino is on course to make $110 million profit this year. So when the company offered a 4% increase
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– John Edmundson So the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has suspended one of its workers because he is standing for parliament on the Act ticket. Shawn Tan, a former Green Party member who became a convert to Act, has been suspended (on full pay) because there is a clause in his contract which prevents
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New Workers Party leaflet available for download here.
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Below are the speeches given by Christchurch Central candidate Byron Clark and Christchurch East candidate Paul Hopkinson at the official launch of the Christchurch Workers Party 2008 election campaign last month. Byron speaks on the problem with the ‘mainstream’ parties, and Paul on the alternative offered by the Workers Party.
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The following talks recorded at forums in the first half of 2008 have just been added to the Spark Audio archive. John Edmundson What future for Palestine? Phil Ferguson Iraq five years on Nick Scullin The present war in Afghanistan
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– Byron Clark This article was originally published in the University of Canterbury student magazine Canta under the title ‘Minimum wage is an objective truth: How postmodernism hurts the working class’. If you’re an Arts student then theres no doubt that you will have encountered the term ‘postmodernism’ at some point during your time at
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(Boobs on Bikes organiser Steve Crow argues that the issue is a woman’s right to bare her breasts in public) Women of New Zealand, I believe You owe some gratitude to Steve Since Rogernomics hit the fan It’s since been for himself each man Each to his own and stuff thy neighbour Under National or
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While capital, commodities and rich people get to travel more freely around the world, workers’ freedom to move is increasingly restricted. Big companies can move freely to where labour is cheaper, for instance, but workers can’t move freely to where wages are higher. The Labour government favours free trade agreements, for instance, while imposing new
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The extension of the Wellington City Council’s liquor ban into Aro St and Aro Park is not the answer, says Wellington Central Workers Party candidate Don Franks. “Banning alcohol in public is not the answer” says Franks “This is a class issue. As more and more people find it harder to buy a drink in
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