In my inbox this morning--looks worth attending: AUT Law School warmly invites you to a Public Lecture on "State surveillance and human rights" by a leading UK public lawyer and human rights commentator, Professor Keith Ewing, King’s College, London. Date:...
Which is why one of the subsequent books by Geoffrey Palmer (and son) was called "Bridled Power". MMP was not the total answer but it did provide some check on dictatorship.
What is required to try to make sure he is no longer a member is a written complaint to NZ Council via a branch, LEC or a regional rep or directly from a member. See discussion in Open Mike yesterday following 2.1.1.1. If you or any others on this thread ...
Pink Postman please look at 2.1.1.1 above and the posts following and give Moira and the NZ Council some ammunition.
Did I hear Moira Coatsworth reported on radio yesterday pointing out that there were processes in the Labour Party in terms of membership for the likes of Tamihere? Am I correct in thinking that (like the police?) she needs a formal complaint? If so, can ...
A rapid and reliable train service would soon fix that! One person in a household might still have to work in Auckland but could live in Huntly.
Yes. What a relief to have a grown-up back in charge!!
I know this is a late response but I simply cannot allow this misinformation to stand. "Any attempts to obstruct the negotiation or simply ignore the unions and twiddle their thumbs through facilitation until the Employment Authority can make their ruling ...
I completely agree that she is not to be emulated in most things, unionist. But as the ultimate beltway insider she has been astute enough to recognise that her self-seeking self-interest is best served by being based in Auckland. Labour won't win the ...
Hi Grant Great to see you engaging with TS. I have an unashamedly one-eyed Jafa question to ask you. If you win the leadership, how many days a week are you prepared to pledge to spend in Auckland? I have heard you speak here 3 times and each time I have ...
And the related piece of Jones-spin, promoted most assiduously by Jones himself, is how he can make the cut-through to all the nonvoters from 2011. Well...a lot of the nonvoters are in Auckland and a sizeable proportion are Maori. So why is it that Jones ...
But perhaps not as condescending as your assumption that Labour and women are somehow two different entities and that Labour (apparently not female) should be encouraging women to be candidates. It does not seem to have dawned on almost anybody in this ...
The Court of Appeal has clearly set out the basic employment rights which s97 protects. In the case New Zealand Dairy Workers' Union Incorporated v Open Country Cheese Company [2011] NZCA 56, three Justices of the Court of Appeal say: [24]Part 8 confers on...
My father joined the Public Trust as a school leaver in 1937. Had war not intervened he might very well have been the executor handling property and important business too weighty for a woman. An intelligent, scholarly, deeply impractical man, he was ...
Who else? The Trade Union History Project and the Auckland Labour History Group. Support & enquiries for the Auckland group can go to pgsimpkin@slingshot.co.nz. Next event in Auckland: Friday 14 June, 2013 12:00-3:00pm WG808, L8, Sir Paul Reeves building ...
This is a really serious situation and one which even a highly unionised work force may not be able to resist. The Ports of Auckland tried this on with MUNZ in the previous bargaining round before their big push last year and lost in the courts. Employment...
John Key's blatant use of cronyism and patronage have now become so normalised that the young journalist who compiles the Herald Diary page seems to assume that Key personally funds projects through NZ on Air. Criticising Gaylene Preston's daughter for her...
Great little article in the Guardian: "How shaming the poor became a new bloodsport!" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/03/blame-poor-poverty-barbara-ellen
Oh I see....I was looking for actual evidence. Key, on the morning of meeting with Warner Bros, claims that the unions funded the Bryson SC case. Yes he did make it up. It obviously suited the spin at the time. The CTU does not have the deep pockets of ...
Edit function not working? My post should have read "where's your link?" Not sure what your post should have read.......
Presumably this is not a reply to my post? If it is, she's your link?
Still waiting for evidence that the CTU funded Bryson, ER? You will be called on unsubstantiated allegations if you choose to blog here.
ER, your link has nothing to do with the Court of Appeal. It does talk about the Supreme Court hearing in which the CTU appeared as an intervener. So did Business NZ --- are you suggesting that they were funding Bryson? Your link does not show that the CTU...
Great to see Merata Mita's film on Hotere screened on Maori TV tonight. Once again we see this channel carrying the load of a genuine public broadcaster! The film is a brilliant tribute to Hotere and his work.
Can you produce ANY evidence that the CTU funded the Bryson case? Take care with your answer--i know what it should be. Perhaps you will check the meaning of "intervener" in an employment law case before you respond. But isn't it fascinating that you ...
Don't shoot the messenger here, vto. A short quote in a newspaper piece describing how the market is currently operating is no basis for your disparaging comment about "people like Gail Pacheco." As it happens, Gail is a leading member of the AUT Work ...
+1+1+1+1 KhandallaMan. Excellent post Lynn. It was totally unbelievable at the time that Shearer could be made leader but it is human to want to hope for the best. Shearer is not only a neophyte but he gives no hint of having any consistent principles that...
True. But some of us have done this for years....and years. I'm not letter boxing pamphlets, renewing memberships, stuffing envelopes, selling raffle tickets, phone banking and door knocking etc etc as I have always done while we have this inept and ...
It has always been an unfathomable mystery QOT, compounded by Jones' abundantly evident and delusional sense of entitlement. When the Party appeals to increase contributions arrive in my inbox, Shane Jones is one of the reasons why I take no action. (...
Brent Sheather, investment writer in the Herald, picks apart all the arguments supporting the sales in "SOE sales--tell me why again?" http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10829989
Do we have the text or a link for Parker's speech yesterday? Where does Fran O'Sullivan get her labour market flexibility reference from?
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