Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: workers’ rights

  • 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…

  • International (Working) Women’s Day

    It’s hard to know what to write on this International (Working) Women’s Day. The issues facing women living under patriarchy remain pretty much what they always are: there’s a basic…

  • 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…