Grid of posts 2×3

  • ACC changes negative for workers

    Byron Clark The Spark December 2009 At the end of October parliament voted 69 to 53 to send the Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment Bill, which contains a number of proposed changes to ACC, to select committee. The National Party initially had trouble getting together the numbers, with ACT insisting the changes didn’t go Read more

  • Climate change: reform or revolution?

    Text of the Workers Party leaflet for New Zealand Climate Camp 2010, by Ian Anderson. This leaflet is for people who’ve figured out that climate change is happening, and that it’s driven in large part by industrial greenhouse gas emissions. If you’re here, you want to stop it in its tracks. Despite the attempts of Read more

  • Industrial activity review for 2009

    The following article by Mike Kay overviews industrial activity in New Zealand in 2009 and summarises some of the highlights.  Overview  The Statistics NZ Survey of Working Life (March 2008) identified 30.1% of all employees as union members. Female employees were more likely to be union members than males (33.0% and 27.4%, respectively). Only 17.4% Read more

  • Say no to 90-days of fire at will!

    Picket outside ‘Positive Airflow Limited’ call centre on Wednesday 9th December, Home Street (behind Kent Terrace), Wellington at 12.30pm. Positive Airflow are responsible for taking calls and advertising for HRV, the kiwi owned Heat Recovery Ventilation company, they are also responsible for sacking staff under the new 90 day ‘fire at will bill’. A Unite Read more

  • Nepali Maoists Rally for Nationwide Strike

    Thousands of Maoists held a torch procession on December the 5th in preparation for a nationwide Banda (closure) the following day. The action was called in retaliation of an incident in Kailali district on Friday. Police had used deadly force in removing thousands of Maoist aligned landless squatters from forest land. For regular updates, follow Read more

  • Student Occupations Spread Across California: An Analysis

    Originally posted on Advance the Struggle, reposted from Kasama. For the Workers Party campaign against political trespassing by Victoria University, click here. “These protests represent a political eruption in a time when militant struggle is bubbling up to the surface.  It’s becoming progressively clearer that proposing such militancy is not premature…but also prove that it Read more