Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Wages

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • No fix for housing affordability as long as we ignore what’s actually affordable

    Housing affordability has been a huge issue in New Zealand for a long time, but some extra fuel has been added to the fire by a recent survey which shows…