Happy Labour Day

Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, October 28th, 2013 - 14 comments
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From the movement that brought you equal pay,  the weekend, minimum wages, child protection laws, injury prevention,  the right to organise …

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  1. Tracey 1
    28 October 2013 at 12:18 pm

    Its actually a sad day given the state of workplaces and wages and hours worked. Progress aye?

    • Tat Loo (CV) 1.1
      28 October 2013 at 1:36 pm

      Seems like “progress” since then has the distinct feel of being a con job. Let’s make 2014 really count.

  2. fender 2
    28 October 2013 at 12:18 pm

    Happy Labour Day to all.

    Helen Kelly on RNZ this morning, what a legend, love you Helen xoxox

  3. amirite 3
    28 October 2013 at 2:20 pm

    As per pic in the above article, all of it has long gone. It’s either 11+ hours a day, or short part time work hours not sufficient for a decent pay.
    So much for progress.

    • adam 4.1
      29 October 2013 at 12:00 am

      I really like how he turned Shelly from an anarchist, into a poet reformer. ‘Ant it grand when SD’s become the commissars. Any of you talking about Russel Brand ?- or is he now hated for not voting – Oh wait over 60% of Auckland didn’t vote – tipping point anyone…

  5. hoom 5
    28 October 2013 at 8:01 pm

    I love to whip out a printed pic of Parnell & tell my colleagues about him & the origins of the 40hr week around this time of the year.

    Unfortunately its a 7 day a week rostered workplace so not exactly the greatest audience.
    But most are interested & amazed to discover that 8hr working day actually comes from a NZer.

    • millsy 5.1
      28 October 2013 at 9:09 pm

      I have been working longer than 8 hours each day the past few weeks. That’s what happens when the company you work for takes on a contract without considering whether they need more manpower.

      I so wish it was 1973. I would be working less hours for better pay, and me and my fellow workers would have the highest living standards in the world.

  6. millsy 6
    28 October 2013 at 9:06 pm

    The likes of Cam Slater, David Farrar, Brett Dale, John Key, Jami-lee Ross, Mike Hosking, Leighton Smith, Lucia maria (she also want to see the gays exterminated), Colin Craig, John Banks, Simon Bridges, Bob McCroskie, Gosman, Fisiani, Santi, Grumpy, Matthew Hooton Monique Angel, Pete George and all others that I have left off my list (sorry, will be here all night), are to trade unionists what the SA brownshirts were to the Jews in 1930’s Germany, common thugs who see those who belong to a trade unions (along with homosexuals) as vermin to be exterminated in a Final Solution.

    Get ready folks, post 2014 we will see trade unionists streaming through our court system when National make joining a trade union to be a crime, and the PPTA outlawed in our schools.

    Slavery, here we come.

  7. Tracey 7
    29 October 2013 at 7:30 am

    When I teach employment law my students are anazed at 8 hour day and 40 week and u can see they thought they have always been here. When I tell them the staff in downtown abbey had 1 day off a month and iften worked 18- 20 hour days tgeir jaws drop.

  8. Allyson 8
    29 October 2013 at 11:18 am

    “From the movement that brought you equal pay, the weekend, minimum wages, child protection laws, injury prevention, the right to organise …” Yes but has the Labor movement brought us anything beneficial this century?

    • karol 8.1
      29 October 2013 at 11:20 am

      has the Labor movement brought us anything beneficial this century?

      Are you referring to the US Labor movement?

    • KJT 8.2
      29 October 2013 at 2:07 pm

      Continued 8 hour days, holidays, security of employment and reasonable wages for office workers, courtesy of the floor set by the public sector unions.

      Minimum wages.

      Labour laws such as the holidays act, parental leave and sick leave.

      Still showing how workers, within a union, can demand, and get, fair treatment. . Which is why 35million plus was wasted by POAL in an ideological crusade to try and have a totally casualised, non-union work force. And why the Fascists in our Government continually attack Teachers and health Unions.
      Can’t have examples of workers who do not have to wait by the phone 24 hours a day 7 days a week for their guaranteed 0 whole hours a week, for a pittance.

      The Lawyers, Accountants, Farmers, Managers and Directors Unions do rather well for their members also.

      Of course the powerful on the right wing are removing Labour rights as fast as they think they can get away with to prevent organised Labour from opposing their theft of our country.

    • KJT 8.3
      29 October 2013 at 2:11 pm

      Continued 8 hour days, holidays, security of employment and reasonable wages for office workers, courtesy of the floor set by the public sector unions.

      Minimum wages.

      Labour laws such as the holidays act, parental leave and sick leave.

      Still showing how workers, within a union, can demand, and get, fair treatment. . Which is why 35million plus was wasted by POAL in an ideological crusade to try and have a totally casualised, non-union work force. And why the Fascists in our Government continually attack Teachers and health Unions.
      Can’t have examples of workers who do not have to wait by the phone 24 hours a day 7 days a week for their guaranteed 0 whole hours a week, for a pittance.

      The Lawyers, Accountants, Farmers, Managers and Directors Unions do rather well for their members also.

      Of course the powerful on the right wing are removing Labour rights as fast as they think they can get away with to prevent organised Labour, including tradespeople, from opposing their theft of our rights, and our country.

      Not many people realise that the actions by Wellington tradesmen, which gave us the 8 hour day, would be illegal today.

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