Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Economy

  • Labour takes a stand against zero-hour contracts

    Iain Lees-Galloway, Labour’s spokesperson on Labour Issues, has lodged a member’s bill which would ban the use of zero-hour contracts: “Unlike casual agreements that provide flexibility for both employer and…

  • The lie about productivity and wages

    The Productivity Commission has a new report out which looks at changes in the labour income share, or LIS, from 1978 to 2010. The labour income share is described in…

  • Andrea Vance: five important unanswered questions

    Andrea Vance has posted five unanswered questions from the Beehive – click through for her answers: 1. When is an asset sale not an asset sale?  2. They won’t be…

  • The Northland by-election

    With Mike Sabin’s precipitous resignation, a by-election is on the cards in Northland, and soon: https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560936428948189184 https://twitter.com/philiplyth/status/560937099889623040 It’s exciting times for politics nerds like myself, but the fact is that…

  • The state of the nation

    I probably don’t have a lot to add to what’s already been said about Andrew Little’s state of the nation speech this morning. It was sensible and forward-looking – an…