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Bunny St McDonalds had its second McStrike today with seven members of staff dropping tools and coming out to join the picket line, in fact they’d already come outside before the picket line had even been set up. The picket began as supporters came around the corner and saw the workers already set up outside,
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Abridged from a talk given to the Fightback 2013 Conference. By Grant Brookes, Fightback member and union delegate. This article offers the perspective of a Fightback member, however perspectives within Fightback differ. Further perspectives on workers’ and union struggles will be covered in the coming months. Sessions at socialist conferences on “workers, unions and class
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Presented by Daphne Lawless, at Fightback 2013 Wellington conference.
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Sunday 9 June, “Hei Waha” Debate, Taita Community Hall, Lower Hutt. Statement on poverty.
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Daphne Lawless, Auckland Fightback member. Preliminary feedback has just closed on the Auckland Council’s Draft Unitary Plan, a document which will have major impact on how working people in the Super City live, work and play. When the single Auckland Council replaced Auckland’s four cities, three districts and regional council in 2010, the law stated
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Ian Anderson, Fightback Wellington branch member. Fightback actively supported unionised McDonalds workers as part of our 2013 winter conference. On the evening of Saturday the 1st of June, members and supporters distributed nearly 2000 leaflets across Wellington McDonalds sites; Newtown, the Basin Reserve, Courtenay Place, Taranaki Street, Lambton Quay, Manners Mall and Bunny Street (which
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Originally printed by Green Left Weekly (Australia). By Joel Cosgrove, Fightback member. After a relatively quiet couple of years, the Unite union, which organises fast food and other previously unorganised sectors, has burst into action with a vigorous industrial campaign against McDonald’s. The key demands are focused around winning a NZ$15 starting wage, an end
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As part of its 2013 conference Fightback (Aotearoa/NZ) is supporting a Unite membership campaign to lift pay and establish guaranteed hours of work at McDonald’s workplaces. We’ll be distributing this leaflet to McDonald’s customers: WHY FIGHTBACK SUPPORTS MCDONALDS WORKERS Between 7pm and 9.30pm on Saturday June 1 Fightback members and other supporters of the Unite-led campaign will
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Second in a series of “What Is Socialism?” meetings, Byron Clark, co-editor of the Fightback magazine and local Fightback activist, leads a discussion on the “Mechanics of Capitalism” and explores some introductory Marxist ideas. All are welcome if you have an interest at all in this area. Kai will be shared, a gold coin donation
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While workers in Aotearoa/NZ strike and demonstrate for improved pay and conditions from McDonalds, this struggle also has an international dimension. This report on an industrial campaign against McDonalds in Detroit, USA, is reprinted from Socialist Worker (USA). By Aaron Petkov, with contributions from Marie Bucks. MANAGERS OF the Detroit McDonald’s on Gratiot Avenue, northeast
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