Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Industrial relations

  • Not the “end to zero hour contracts” you were looking for

    We have two options before us, New Zealand. Either Michael Woodhouse still hasn’t had anyone explain the difference between zero hour contracts – which are exploitative trash – and casual…


  • Our assumptions about work and workers

    Yesterday I posted about sexist discrimination in the workplace, and noted: So there’s the gendered, identity-politics side of the argument. But there’s a slightly broader set of assumptions in play,…


  • 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…


  • Peter Talley on health and safety law: unions are evil, workers’ lives cheap

    Well, this is downright scary. If it's all u do today read first 2 pages of "Sir" Peters sub on H&S Bill. Govt is listening 2 this crap #laughorcry http://t.co/4A3c4ojuwn…


  • Heartless government

    A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have. Last August, Emma-Lita Bourne died of pneumonia because the state house her family lived in…