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  • Oil workers’ union leader calls for an end to the US plunder of Iraq

    On May 28, 2008, Chevron and ExxonMobil Corporations each conducted their annual shareholder meetings. Chevron held its meeting at its world headquarters in San Ramon, Ca. ExxonMobil convened in Dallas, Texas. Antiwar, environmental and other social justice organisations conducted protests at each event. The statement below from the Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq to Read more

  • Abortion – whose choice is it?

    Workers Party public forum Monday 23 June 6pm Level 1, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland The anti-choice lobby group “Right To Life” are jubilant over a High Court judge’s review that questions the legality of many abortions. Daphna Whitmore discusses the legal, social and practical realities of abortion in NZ today. Read more

  • Popcorn Strikes Hit Skycity Cinemas

    – article from the upcoming June 2008 issue of Cinema Worker Photo: Socialist Aoteaora Strikes will be spread around the country until the employers offer experienced-based pay for cinema attendants, appropriate rates for supervisors, and secure hours of work with a progressive rostering protocol. The Skycity Cinema offer has been for cinema attendants to start Read more

  • Report on Marxism 2008 Educational Weekend

    – Workers Party(NZ) reporters Seventy-three people attended the Marxism 2008 conference in Grey Lynn, Auckland over Queen’s Birthday weekend. Guest speakers and members of the Workers Party (NZ) – which organised the conference – came together to deliver presentations on a range of important issues and to generate discussions and ideas. The political depth of Read more

  • Upbeat strike at Auckland Airport

    Two dozen workers at Auckland Airport’s foodcourt staged a lightening strike on Saturday 7 June, in protest at medieval working conditions. The strikers marched through the foodcourt calling for their rights and were applauded by the public. Employers and security tried unsuccessfully to silence the upbeat strikers. The company is a joint venture between HMSC, Read more

  • CTU president sides with scabs in junior doctors’ strike

    – Tim Bowron Council of Trade Unions President Helen Kelly has condemned recent strike action by junior doctors employed by district health boards, claiming that it risks giving unions “a bad name”. In an article published in the Sunday Star Times on April 27, Kelly criticised the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) for not supporting the Read more