Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: bad employers

  • Who wouldn’t want ambulance drivers to be safe and healthy at work?

    St John ambulance drivers aren’t asking for much: regular breaks, fair pay, and not being sent out on their own to deal with dangerous or violent patients. But that’s apparently…

  • Easter trading

    Easter Sunday is one of the three-and-a-half days a year when (most) shops have to be closed. That could be changing. From Denise Roche of the Greens: The new rules…

  • Bold politics: redefining a good business model

    I’m slightly in love with this idea of Jeremy Corbyn’s: to stop companies paying dividends until they pay the people who work for them a living wage. He said in…

  • Not the “end to zero hour contracts” you were looking for

    We have two options before us, New Zealand. Either Michael Woodhouse still hasn’t had anyone explain the difference between zero hour contracts – which are exploitative trash – and casual…

  • QOTD: Gordon Campbell on the Hobbit Law

    The Green Party has unhelpfully pointed out that National’s dirty deal with Warner Bros to strip Kiwi film workers of their rights as employees didn’t deliver all those jobs we…