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Reprinted from Not Afraid of Ruins blog. The new Auckland Supercouncil has voted to support a submission in favour of the Regulation of Prostitution in Specific Places Bill. This law would let Supercouncil pass bylaws banning street workers in specific areas. Arguments in favour of criminalizing street workers are usually about protecting families, and moral values,
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Friday January 4, Burger King held a disciplinary meeting against Dunedin employee Julie Tyler. Her alleged misconduct was the posting of the following sentence on a friend’s Facebook wall, ‘Real jobs don’t underpay and overwork like BK does’. Julie’s union, Unite, her friends, and other workers successfully built up public opposition against BK before the
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In this article, Ian Anderson, a member of the Wellington branch of the Workers Party, looks back on the breaking of state secrets – including with regard to NZ’s role in Iraq – and how WikiLeaks has helped shape recent international events. By now everyone with access to mainstream media has heard of WikiLeaks. Whether
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By Byron Clark (Christchurch branch WP member) ‘‘I know a number of external parties who have expressed interest in the asset” These were the words of Pike River Coal chairman John Dow, quoted in The Press on January 14th in an article where the main topic was the police decision to ‘pull the plug’ on
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Egypt solidarity protest in Christchurch The following is the text of a leaflet distributed by Workers Party members at demonstrations held accross New Zealand in solidarity with the uprising in Egypt. The Arab world is on fire. The people of the Middle East are rising up against the Western supported dictatorships. Suddenly a situation that
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A working class revolt has broken out in Tunisia. Trade unions, professional organisations and millions of poor and oppressed people have faced off with the armed thugs of dictator Ben Ali, and after weeks of protests, strikes and clashes he has been driven from power. The dictator fled to Saudi Arabia, but the people are
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Don Franks A contribution to a discussion among Workers Party members I don’t have a problem in principle with unions calling on the government to intervene on redundancies. Its a call that can come up from the floor of union meetings. If I had a say at such a meeting I’d say, well, I don’t
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Jared Phillips SkyCity Casino workers in Auckland took strike action after the clock turned twelve on New Year’s eve, with more than 150 employees filing from the building and filling up its Victoria street side, and with the same number, combined, walking out from later shifts.
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This is the year the government brought in new legislation attacking workers’ rights. While the new laws will make defending workers’ rights harder some workers are showing that there’s a fighting spirit and victories to be won. In October this year union members working on the Kan Tan 4 drilling rig in Taranaki won a 30%
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