Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Unions

  • Domestic violence is a work issue

    We can now put a dollar figure – a conservative, probably-underestimated figure – on the cost of domestic violence to New Zealand business. That’s due to a report commissed by…


  • 30th anniversary of the Trades Hall bombing

    On this day in 1984 a suitcase bomb was left in the Wellington Trades Hall. At 5:19 it detonated, killing Ernie Abbott, the caretaker. The bomber has never been caught,…


  • Happy International (Working) Women’s Day!

    The official theme of International Women’s Day this year is “Inspiring Change”. It’s a little vague, a little aspirational, not too confrontational – fairly typical for this kind of awareness-raising…