Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Wages

  • The only minimum wage is a living wage

    The New Zealand government announced an increase to the minimum wage today – up to $15.75 an hour from 1 April. On Breakfast TV, MP and former tobacco lobbyist Chris…

  • Jobs! What are they good for?

    Your brighter future, New Zealand: A Wellington employment training centre has had its Government contract abruptly pulled because it did not focus on placing people in the hospitality, aged care and call…

  • Stopping the clock

    First up, I need to make make it clear as someone who’s spent the majority of my adult life in the movement and who still does a bit of contract…

  • How we talk about industrial action

    There’s a problem with the way we talk about working people who take industrial action. The problem is we don’t talk about them at all. Check out the framing of…

  • Bold politics: redefining a good business model

    I’m slightly in love with this idea of Jeremy Corbyn’s: to stop companies paying dividends until they pay the people who work for them a living wage. He said in…