Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Wages

  • Sexism, babies, and our assumptions about work

    It’s 2015, and we’re constantly told that sexism is over, feminism has had its day, and would you nagging witches please just simmer down already? And then this happens: An…


  • Protect Your Signature!

    There’s always something comical about American corporations’ union-busting videos. They wouldn’t be out of place in between news clips on Starship Troopers. And if you’re looking for a conspiracy theory,…


  • Back to the future: Brian Easton on benefit abatement rates

    Hat-tip to Sarah Wilson on Twitter for linking to this 1995 piece by Brian Easton on the “unintended” consequences of abating people’s benefits when they get part-time work – to…


  • Send a message against zero-hour contracts

    Great news for some workers in the fast-food industry this week: Unite has now successfully negotiated for all workers at Restaurant Brands (KFC, Pizza Hutt, Starbucks and Carls Jr.) to…


  • QOTD: Gordon Campbell on the Hobbit Law

    The Green Party has unhelpfully pointed out that National’s dirty deal with Warner Bros to strip Kiwi film workers of their rights as employees didn’t deliver all those jobs we…