Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Industrial relations

  • Little: ACC levies need to come down

    Most of the attention on today’s episode of Q&A focused on the two biggest issues in NZ politics at the moment – the Northland by-election and Nicky Hager’s most recent GCSB…

  • What has Michael Woodhouse actually got right about employment relations?

    With a caucus of 59, the National Party must have at least one person on the roster who understands basic employment law. The received wisdom is that National is the party…

  • The right to strike

    The right to strike is recognised internationally as a fundamental workers’ right – though it’s not universally respected, like many other basic human rights. Global union IndustriALL notes five reasons…

  • 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…