Let the Nats know that women matter too

Written By: - Date published: 11:52 am, March 2nd, 2009 - 34 comments
Categories: sexism, workers' rights - Tags:

National/ACT’s record for women so far has been dismal . Their work rights have been slashed by the Fire at Will law (women are disportionality employed by small businesses), they were all but excluded from the Job Summit (despite women being the most heavily affected by job losses and reduced hours), they got only a paltry 9 cent an hour minimum wage increase, and, then, Tony Ryall rubbed salt in the wound bycancelling two pay equity inquiries because they would have led to more expensive pay rounds.

Well, stuff that.

payequityfax-picThe Hand Mirror have organised a Faxathon for the 6th of March to coincide with International Working Women’s Day on the 8th.

You can download the petition form here. Inevitably, there’s a Facebook group, too. So, get some names on the forms and then fax them into Minister of State Sexism Services, Tony Ryall on 04 817 6504 on March 6.

I would suggest that you send them through to Key as well (04 473 3689). Unlike Ryall, Key is worried about preserving his popularity.

In fact, I would suggest to the organisers that they should get a group together and hand over a pile of the petitions outside Parliament on the day, a la the s92(a) action – good for the cameras, so more likely to get coverage and prompt a back down. You’ll be able get some friendly MPs or, at least, the ever-opportunistic Peter Dunne to accept the petitions from you.

34 comments on “Let the Nats know that women matter too ”

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  1. QoT 1
    2 March 2009 at 12:49 pm

    I swear to God if I see one more “but no one really discriminates against women employees! If women just worked as hard as men they’d be paid the same!” comment on this issue they’ll hear my screams in Picton.

  2. Brett Dale 2
    2 March 2009 at 1:41 pm

    A national working woman’s holiday is a great idea.

    • Felix 2.1
      2 March 2009 at 2:05 pm

      Jesus Brett. You’ve gone wrong.

      • Tigger 2.1.1
        2 March 2009 at 3:28 pm

        Just what women need – another white-bread straight man with bad taste in clothes, no dance moves and who doesn’t help out around the house…

        • vto 2.1.1.1
          3 March 2009 at 11:13 am

          is that you in that brett?

          Tigger, yeah fuck all those white bread straight men. All they do is fuck up everything and everyone they touch. They contribute nothing and quite frankly the world would so obviously be better off without them. God I loathe them.

          Down with white bread men!

  3. Brett Dale 3
    2 March 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Felix:

    Whats wrong with that video, its starts out, playing on people’s prejudices that a woman should be the house wife, then shows, the woman is out working.

    Do you think some sexist rap crap showing a woman shaking her ass poolside is a better reflective of what woman should aspire too?

  4. Brett Dale 4
    2 March 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Felix:

    Any self respecting Liberal, should love my taste in music, the songs are all about racial equality, woman’s rights, gay rights and environmental issues.

    • Felix 4.1
      2 March 2009 at 2:47 pm

      It’s still awful. And then there’s Billy Joel.

      But I do remember you once listed some of your favourite comedians and I noticed that they were also my favourites so apparently there are some things we agree on.

  5. Brett Dale 5
    2 March 2009 at 2:50 pm

    Felix:

    There was bound to be something.

  6. roger nome 6
    2 March 2009 at 3:15 pm

    God brett – retarded inbred music for retarded inbred people i guess.

    If you want some feminist music, made by feminists, which makes anyone with taste want to dance instead of puke, watch this video.

  7. Brett Dale 7
    2 March 2009 at 3:28 pm

    Retarded inbred music for inbred people?

    I didnt post a rap video did I ?

    Yes I love strong female music by artists such as Natalie Maines, Lucinda Williams, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood.

    Their songs always feature strong woman, in their videos the woman are always fully clothed, unlike the sexist rap and rock crap that is in the mainstream media today.

  8. Felix 8
    2 March 2009 at 3:45 pm

    That’s nice Brett. It’s still awful.

    Cool video Roger.

  9. Julie 9
    2 March 2009 at 4:01 pm

    It’s just so much easier not to talk about the actual issue of this thread isn’t it?

    Thanks Steve for the promotion.

    We’ve had a few people say they’d be keen on a bit of in-person activity on Friday, at Parliament. Personally I’m in Auckland and unable to organise that, and our people in Welly aren’t well placed to do it either, but if someone wanted to pick it up and run with it then that would be great. The idea is that the faxathon is a very flaxroots effort – people can do it in a way that suits them, make up their own fax, email instead, etc.

  10. Brett Dale 10
    2 March 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Roger:

    I guess music is a matter of taste. The music in that video seemed to be a bit studio created for my liking.

  11. roger nome 11
    2 March 2009 at 4:49 pm

    Brett – you don’t need a studio to programme in a few drum beats and sample some guitar riffs. All it takes is a computer and a little equpitment. That doesn’t mean the process is easy though. To do what le tigre does takes a highly developed aesthetic sensibility, and appreciation of performance art – plus, they kick arse.

    The video you linked to is just god-awfully weak.

  12. Felix 12
    2 March 2009 at 5:25 pm

    Brett,

    That mongoloid hillbilly music you linked to was also created in a studio, by on-the-clock session players who couldn’t give a crap about it.

  13. Brett Dale 13
    2 March 2009 at 7:48 pm

    Felix:

    Actually Sammy Kershaw doesn’t work that way.

  14. Brett Dale 14
    2 March 2009 at 7:50 pm

    Roger:

    Music is a matter of taste, personally I wouldnt call that link performance art, it could of been put together by someone in a high school band competition, but that is just my opinion.

    Now here is a group of females that can really sing and play actual instruments.

  15. Felix 15
    2 March 2009 at 8:14 pm

    Yes it’s a matter of taste, and yours is atrocious.

    I’ll have to take your word about Sammy Slackjaw, but it sure sounds like mass-produced Nashville paint-by-numbers tripe to me.

    I’m not even going to click that link, the last one left a permanent scar on my brain.

  16. Brett Dale 16
    2 March 2009 at 8:35 pm

    Felix:

    How can anyone knock the dixie chicks?

    They are brilliant.

  17. Felix 17
    2 March 2009 at 8:48 pm

    How? I’d use a car.

  18. Brett Dale 18
    2 March 2009 at 8:58 pm

    Felix:

    Why would you want to do anything to the dixie chicks?, they are liberal and great artists.

  19. Brett Dale 19
    2 March 2009 at 10:36 pm

    Felix:

    They do a lot of charity work, and were around about a decade before they got their first album deal, they have paid their dues.

  20. Brett Dale 20
    3 March 2009 at 8:08 am

    Felix:

    In your opinion.

  21. roger nome 21
    3 March 2009 at 9:46 am

    Brett – i didn’t say that the video i linked to was performance art (but the sequenced dancing was pretty cool). It was a live show – have a look at some of their other videos.

    Felix is right of course – that song you linked to was cliched and lifeless. By the looks of things, Mr “Slackjaw” doesn’t have a creative bone in his body.

  22. Brett Dale 22
    3 March 2009 at 11:01 am

    Kershaw is a good writer.

    But well done on the name calling.

  23. roger nome 23
    3 March 2009 at 1:43 pm

    You need to get out more Brett –

    If you’re looking for awesome country music performed by women you need go no further than gillian welch (screw that cliched cookie cutter yawn-fest that you’re into).

  24. Brett Dale 24
    3 March 2009 at 4:13 pm

    Roger:

    I am into Gillian Welch.

    Thanks for posting the link!

    🙂

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