Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Industrial relations

  • Campbell Live on zero-hour contracts

    Continuing my commemoration of Campbell Live’s commitment to serious investigative reporting of New Zealand current affairs, instead of watching goddamned Road Cops. Tonight: remembering how John Campbell and the team put a…

  • 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,…

  • Michael Woodhouse: a fool or a liar?

    Over a month ago I asked what Michael Woodhouse has actually got right on employment relations in New Zealand. I don’t think it’s too much to expect the Minister of…

  • 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…