Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Industrial relations

  • How Dirty Politics hurt low-paid workers

    (Published earlier today at The Standard.) New bits and pieces from Dirty Politics are coming to the fore every day, painting a picture of a systematic, deliberate strategy to use…

  • Does the National Party really not understand how unions work?

    This article in the Herald gave me a giggle today. It refers to a cash payment being made to Parliamentary Services staff who are part of their workplace collective employment…

  • Domestic violence is a work issue

    We can now put a dollar figure – a conservative, probably-underestimated figure – on the cost of domestic violence to New Zealand business. That’s due to a report commissed by…

  • 30th anniversary of the Trades Hall bombing

    On this day in 1984 a suitcase bomb was left in the Wellington Trades Hall. At 5:19 it detonated, killing Ernie Abbott, the caretaker. The bomber has never been caught,…

  • Happy International (Working) Women’s Day!

    The official theme of International Women’s Day this year is “Inspiring Change”. It’s a little vague, a little aspirational, not too confrontational – fairly typical for this kind of awareness-raising…