Stephanie Rodgers

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

Category: Labour

  • “Labour values” are more than a talking point

    If there’s a sure bet in New Zealand politics (besides “don’t rule out Winston”) it’s this: when a Labour candidate wants to reassure a Labour audience that they’ve got the…

  • The surplus lie

    Andrew Little delivered his pre-Budget speech in Wellington yesterday, and the pullquote everyone’s talking about was some seriously no-nonsense stuff: …[National’s] promise was clear. Their good economic stewardship would see us in…

  • 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…

  • Paid parental leave back on the cards?

    I suspect the media are going to get a lot of mileage out of “the Winston effect” over the rest of this parliamentary term – but you can’t blame them,…

  • Northland isn’t Epsom – nor Ohariu

    Danyl Mclauchlan has rebutted the spin around Winston’s victory in Northland – “Labour can’t criticise the Epsom deal now! Hypocrites!” very well. (And after I’d drafted this post, Rob Salmond…