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BULLIED YOUR BOSS LATELY?

April 15, 2010 by Admin

Don Franks

According to a feature in today’s Dominion Post, “one in five Kiwi workers suffer from workplace bullying, one of the worst rates in the world”.

The claim’s made by a Minister of Labour commissioned university survey, released on 16/4/2010.

A joint university research team – from Auckland, Waikato, Massey and London – polled more than 1700 workers from the health, education, hospitality and travel sectors asking how frequently they were exposed to “negative acts” at work.

Overall 17.8 per cent of respondents were identified as victims of bullying.

The international range was claimed to be between 5 per cent and 20 per cent. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Work rights

India’s Maoist spokesman interviewed in The Hindu

April 15, 2010 by Admin

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a banned revolutionary party leading a revolutionary movement which has support in more than a third of the country.

The party’s spokesman, Azad, has been interviewed by The Hindu, a widely read publication. In this interview Azad talks in detail about the armed struggle, how and why it developed.

You can download the interview here: Azad’s Interview with The Hindu

or read it on line here:

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/resources/article396694.ece

Filed Under: India

Wgtn: Ben Peterson speaks on Nepali revolution

April 13, 2010 by Admin

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Christchurch’s free health center to close

April 10, 2010 by Admin

The Spark April 2010
Byron Clark

Christchurch’ s free youth health center known as 198 is likely to close at the end of this month due to a funding shortfall. The center has delivered health services to young people since 1995. In 2008-09 the center received $553,087 from the District Health Board but it was forecast to receive the lesser amount of $461,114 this year and unable to find alternative funding to make up the difference and will be facing bankruptcy if it doesn’t close. [Read more…]