Wading in from an animal welfare perspective - barns can be ok; and they can be awful. So not a panacea by any means. The ability to express normal behaviours (grazing; foraging; exploration; engage in social behaviour (grooming); play) are important ...
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 10:26 am, September 5th, 2016 - 49 comments
Categories: democratic participation, local body elections, workers' rights
Tags: Jobs That Count, talleys
This weekend the Nation ran a story about Talley’s AFFCO and the way they behave toward their workers, the environment, and our communities. As part of that they interviewed two of our Jobs That Count local government candidates. These are working class …
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 10:18 am, August 21st, 2016 - 22 comments
Categories: business, community democracy, local body elections, public transport, Unions, water
Tags: bertie ratu, Jobs That Count, meatworkers union
So often we lose sight of the fact that local government is about much, much more than rates. It’s about the water that comes out of the tap – and whether it’s contaminated with campylobacter. It’s about the kinds of houses that get built in your …
This is not correct. The product I applied for is a widely used medical product in the Californian regime. Sativex cost too much for me and is not the mix of THC I need or in the form that would be helpful. But they tried to pimp it (why? Why would they ...
Brilliant. Thanks mate
Yes there is no subsidy and they are unnecessarily expensive.
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 6:08 pm, May 8th, 2016 - 24 comments
Categories: drugs
Tags: helen kelly, Medical Cannabis Awareness NZ, medicinal cannabis
A new charity has been set up to use GiveALittle to raise funds for people who have actually been granted access to a medial cannabis product (there are only two products being administered) to help them pay for them. We are now in the absurd situation …
Thanks everyone who has commented here and especially those supporting this issue. It has been totally reassuring and wonderful how much support and empathy there is for my situation and the situation of others. Even the Stuff comments section is worth ...
Hi. I just ingest it on my tongue. I take it at night so I am not stoned during the day but it does have the stoning component in it as that is part of its pain relief magic. There are products where this is not necessary and this component is reduced. ...
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 6:08 pm, January 8th, 2016 - 129 comments
Categories: death with dignity, drugs, health, human rights, Social issues
Tags: cannabis, medical decisions, medicinal cannabis
I am taking Cannabis Oil to manage my pain as my lung cancer takes over my body. It’s sort of as simple as that really. For some people talking about dying is confronting but actually talking about it allows us to think about how it happens – it is …
Agree Mike. Labour has well and truly lost touch with working class NZ'ers especially when they come out with this scraping the bottom of the barrel stuff. Throwing their support behind some of the worse sort of offenders, and yes believe it or not there ...
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 12:32 am, November 10th, 2015 - 49 comments
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Can’t be many more important campaigns than saving the planet right? Only people power will change the current economic levers which are designed to burn burn burn. We have the chance to join with others around the world ahead of the climate talks in …
I am sick and tired of all this B.S toing and frowing. Meantime, folks are getting sick and are dying spiritually, mentally and physically bit by bit day by day. I remember studying the welfare state and M.J . Savage. While i would hate to see an ...
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 11:39 am, September 24th, 2015 - 53 comments
Categories: employment, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags: michael woodhouse, unite union, zero hour contracts
We have the documents leading up to the what can only be described as a dreadful piece of law legalising employment agreements which tie workers to an employer without any of the reciprocity of guaranteed hours of work. It all started with the spectacular …
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 3:46 pm, July 19th, 2015 - 7 comments
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This week three big things are happening which will show how detached this Government is from the realities of workers and their families working in dangerous workplaces. The private prosecution over the death of Eramiha Pairama Aged 19, killed in a …
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 9:11 pm, July 13th, 2015 - 12 comments
Categories: health and safety, Unions, workers' rights
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Can you help us share this clip? It's powerful and about the reality of workplace deaths for families that suffer them. The health and safety law going through the Parliament will betray these families if it is changed as the Government is proposing. …
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 9:50 am, July 4th, 2015 - 41 comments
Categories: human rights, workers' rights
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There was this one time when the Government understood that workers coming into NZ to help rebuild Christchurch were very vulnerable to exploitation. Because a work visa is tied to a particular employer, migrant workers found that raising any issue such …
Might I suggest Little and those interested see this short documentary from Jamaica, then share it.......this is where NZ is heading if we sign TPPA......It is an excellent review of the situation....Globalisation was rolled out in 3rd world countries, now...
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 10:49 am, May 13th, 2015 - 9 comments
Categories: health and safety, workers' rights
Tags: health and safety
I am conflicted by this farm safety story. It is great to see a farmer talking about the impact on him of a death on his farm. It is rare and important that stories accompany these deaths. They humanise them and move people to action. This farmer needs…
not surprised Campbell Live is canned... having just sat through 10 minutes of watching a cat and a chicken
Get her to email me. She does have an employment contract - it is just not written down which is illegal. Many workers think if the law has been broken and they have no written agreement then they have no agreement - not true! helenk@nzctu.org.nz
Woodhouse is not going to deal with the worst excesses. He is thinking of making it unlawful to restrict secondary employment if you have zero hours - in other words, zero hours will be lawful but slavery won't. Good luck keeping a zero hour job if you are...
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 4:16 pm, February 25th, 2015 - 7 comments
Categories: john key, Mining, Unions
Tags: council of trade unions, MBIE, peter whittall, pike river
Yesterday the families lost only a small bit of the battle for justice at Pike in an application to get some of the documentation relating to the decision to dismiss the charges against Peter Whittall relating to the Pike River Mine explosion. Most of the …
The law is similar in concept to the Employment Contract Act. Firstly it will be unlawful to strike for a multi employer agreement. Secondly although this time an employer will need to turn up to negotiations (something they did not have to do in the ECA),...
Why is it bad timing?
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 4:00 pm, June 18th, 2014 - 9 comments
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Lincoln Kidd was killed in a forest just before Christmas last year. He was 20. Rebecca Macfie wrote powerfully about him and his family in this Listener article. The new health and safety organisation Worksafe had six months to press charges in …
What a sad story. It is very nice of you to tell it and to support our work. We haven't even started contacting the injured workers in forestry but there are over 1200 who are so badly injured they have been on ACC for more than a year (the workforce is ...
I removed a post. First time I have done it and I am not sure what the Standard processes are for this but this person puts the same thing up on every post I write about a completely different issue and it is too indulgent for me to tolerate on an issue ...
And another link. https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/Workersmemorialfund
Here is a donations link http://workersmemorialfund.org.nz/donate/
Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 10:34 pm, May 9th, 2014 - 56 comments
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… year olds call me Aunty Helen Kelly as if both were…
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