Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Industrial relations

  • QOTD: Supreme hubris from POAL CEO Tony Gibson

    On Q&A yesterday, Ports of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson said regarding their planned – and thoroughly rebuffed by the community – wharf extensions: “I don’t think we’re arrogant as a…

  • Tea breaks are creeping communism

    A classic National Party campaign poster did the rounds on Twitter following Farrar’s latest round of “Labour is now the extreme left” scaremongering. What’s funny is how little the right’s…

  • Woodhouse: tough on bad employers?

    It should be heartening to see a National Minister of Labour (sorry, “Workplace Relations and Safety”) handing out to “bad” employers some of the no-nonsense tough-talk the right usually reserves…

  • Cottoning on to new ways of exploiting workers

    Cotton On have hit the news for all the wrong reasons, with FIRST Union revealing that they’re pushing to remove guaranteed rest and meal breaks from workers in their distribution…

  • John Key’s weird “gotcha” moment on ACC

    Andrew Little was pushing the Prime Minister today on the fact that he’s ripping off workers and businesses to the tune of $350 million in ACC levies in order to…