Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Unions

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…