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  1. Someone should keep a Talley

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:51 am, February 26th, 2020 -  15 comments
    Categories: election 2017, election funding, elections, Environment, Media, nz first, Shane Jones, stuart nash, uncategorized, winston peters
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    Radio New Zealand has published details of Talley donations totalling $27,000 being made to the NZ First Foundation.

  2. Talleys versus Free Speech

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 8:54 am, July 29th, 2016 -  33 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, boycott, business, capitalism, class war, Economy, health and safety, Unions, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Talley group want the courts to order a union to stop telling the truth about how they bully, maim and kill their workers. Will the Standard be next in the firing line?

  3. Talley’s don’t want you to read this

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:00 pm, May 11th, 2016 -  14 comments
    Categories: Unions
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    The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has just launched its new digital campaigning site – Together

    And their first campaign is focused on Talley’s

  4. Talleys Jump the Shark!

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:36 pm, April 28th, 2016 -  68 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, class war, discrimination, Unions, workers' rights
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    The truly awful Talley’s group have just taken NZ employment relations back a century or two by trying to get the Employment Court to gag the Meat Workers Union. Talley’s regard freedom of speech as a breach of good faith. They also want the union’s Darien Fenton barred from doing her job. Is it too soon to take Sir Peter Talley’s knighthood away from him?

  5. NZMWU scores $144,000 win against Talleys

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:00 am, February 20th, 2016 -  17 comments
    Categories: employment, health and safety, Unions, workers' rights
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    For the Talley family, $144,000 is nothing, but the fine will sting because the Authority has ordered that it be paid to the Meat Workers Union.

  6. Racist Talleys to Cancel Waitangi Day Holiday?

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 7:52 pm, February 7th, 2016 -  101 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, boycott, capitalism, class war, discrimination, Unions, workers' rights
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    The Talley’s owned meatworks in Rangiuru is threatening to discipline workers and sue their union if workers choose to observe the Waitangi Day holiday tomorrow. How’s that Brighter Future working out, people?

    NOW UPDATED! Hear what Talleys have to say.

     

     

  7. #Talleyban. Standard Exclusive: MWU Blacklisted by Boss

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 10:07 am, August 10th, 2015 -  83 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, boycott, class war, democracy under attack, jobs, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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    Talleys has de-recognised the Meat Workers Union and refused to bargain with them. They have told the workers to set up a new, yellow union. Or else. Brighter Future? Not under National. This is what the recent changes in employment law were intended to achieve. It’s union busting in a brutal, thuggish form.

  8. Stand with the AFFCO/Talley’s workers!

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:30 am, August 6th, 2015 -  41 comments
    Categories: boycott, business, Unions, workers' rights
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    Next Monday 1,000 workers at Talley’s owned AFFCO will take strike action.

  9. # Talleyban

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 5:50 pm, August 4th, 2015 -  47 comments
    Categories: boycott, capitalism, class war, employment, same old national, Unions, workers' rights
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    Talleys have fired the first shots in National’s new class war. You can stand with the AFFCO workers and reject the Tories new anti-union law. Boycott Talleys. Make a stand for your fellow Kiwis.

  10. Peter Talley on health and safety law: unions are evil, workers’ lives cheap

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 2:00 pm, June 15th, 2015 -  116 comments
    Categories: business, health and safety, Unions
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    Whenever unionists talk about the bad employers who put profit over people’s lives, the right wave it away as fear-mongering. Well, here it is straight from the horse’s mouth.

  11. Peter Talley is now a knight

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 8:16 am, June 1st, 2015 -  129 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    The Queens Birthday Honours List has been announced with Peter Talley’s contribution to philanthropy being rewarded with appointment as a Knights Companion.

  12. AFFCO Talley’s and Jobs That Count

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:21 am, February 5th, 2015 -  9 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, employment, jobs, Unions, workers' rights
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    Darien Fenton at Jobs That Count brings us the details of the fight for decent pay and conditions at Talley’s meat processing plants

  13. Talley’s Group: Arsehole managers – bad faith and bullshit

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:56 am, May 17th, 2012 -  41 comments
    Categories: david shearer
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    Today there was the characteristic signature of a Talley’s Group company spin that I’ve observed over the last five years on this site with their worker relationships. They lie, prevaricate, and fracture the truth. They appear to be completely untrustworthy and incapable of good faith bargaining.  In my view they are the absolute arseholes of NZ managers and companies.

  14. Talley’s cracking

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 6:51 am, May 4th, 2012 -  36 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, jobs, Unions
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    It is a fundamental injustice of our society that one family, which already has more than it can ever need, can hold 1,300 families, who have very little, to ransom just to make a little more cash. But the union makes us working people strong. By standing together, the workers are beating Talley’s in the AFFCO lockout. Talley’s cracked. Wants half them back. The workers have said ‘all of us or none of us’.

  15. Talleys: Corporate scum

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 2:14 pm, April 6th, 2009 -  41 comments
    Categories: ACC, business, election funding, workers' rights
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    I’ve long been of the opinion that the Talley family, owners of the Talleys food empire, are a corrosive force in this country who have a complete contempt for their workforce, the public and our democratic institutions. Sure enough, they’re at it again. NZPA reports: The New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) plans to call […]

  16. Talleys in trouble again

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 11:02 am, February 29th, 2008 -  47 comments
    Categories: workers' rights
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    NZPA reports that Hollow Men the Talley brothers have been fined $110,000 after eleven workers at their Blenheim plant were subjected to carbon monoxide poisoning from forklift fumes. The company was found guilty of eleven charges of failing to take all practical steps to ensure employee safety by exposing them to the hazard of carbon […]

  17. The list

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:14 am, April 21st, 2024 -  11 comments
    Categories: act, chris bishop, corruption, national, nz first, Politics, simeon brown
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    Making a major infrastructure deal happen takes years of planning, exceptionally qualified people on all sides, and in New Zealand it takes about ten years of your life. Until now.

  18. Fisheries reform is under way

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:57 am, June 23rd, 2021 -  10 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, Conservation, david parker, Environment, supercity
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    David Parker has shown a deft handling of the Oceans and Fisheries portfolio and in the past week has announced the accelerated roll out of cameras on fishing boats and a suite of actions designed to address the failing health of the Waitemata Harbour.

  19. The Speech From The Throne

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:35 am, November 27th, 2020 -  21 comments
    Categories: climate change, covid-19, Economy, farming, health, housing, labour, Parliament, uncategorized
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    I’m sure one needs a particular depth of political nerdiness to give a flying fig about such things, but since I am one of those, these are my highlights from the speech from the throne to Parliament this week.

  20. Labour’s new Oceans Ministry

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:19 am, November 3rd, 2020 -  23 comments
    Categories: climate change, Conservation, david parker, Environment, food, global warming, jacinda ardern, science, Shane Jones, stuart nash, sustainability
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    Jacinda Ardern’s decision to rename the Fisheries Ministery to “Oceans and Fisheries” and install David Parker instead of Stuart Nash shows a welcome desire to protect this most precious of resources.

  21. The Greens are thinking ahead

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:30 am, July 26th, 2020 -  126 comments
    Categories: climate change, election 2020, Environment, greens, infrastructure, labour, political parties, science, uncategorized, Unions, workers' rights
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    The Greens have released a detailed policy document that sets out what they want to achieve if they are part of the next Government and their Labour Relations policies could be considered to be more pro union than Labour’s policies.

  22. Winston’s Worries

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 2:14 pm, April 21st, 2020 -  30 comments
    Categories: nz first, Politics
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    The Deputy PM has had a bad start to the week. His privacy court case has failed and now the SFO have said the outcome of their investigation into NZ First funding will be out before the election. Has Winston Peters finally run out of puff?

  23. Lock ’em Up!?

    Written By:  darien fenton -  Date published: 12:33 pm, February 18th, 2019 -  15 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, business, capitalism, Economy, Media, workers' rights
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    Unionist and former MP Darien Fenton takes issue with a major weakness in our law. That’s the ability of guilty bosses to just ignore the rulings of the Employment Court. Can’t pay? Won’t pay!

  24. Fair Pay Agreements

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:23 am, January 31st, 2019 -  36 comments
    Categories: business, capitalism, class war, Economy, employment, jobs, minimum wage, poverty, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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    The Working Group on Wage Bargaining reform has reported back. Good news for the working poor, bad news for the filthy rich.

  25. Three years on, will Wairoa AFFCO workers finally be paid?

    Written By:  darien fenton -  Date published: 9:27 am, December 8th, 2018 -  26 comments
    Categories: labour
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    Meat company AFFCO has lost yet another court case over their unlawful lockout of workers in 2015. Will the penny ever drop for the Talley family?

  26. Employment Law Changes; A Win for the Workers

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:28 am, November 28th, 2018 -  40 comments
    Categories: benefits, business, capitalism, class war, Economy, employment, jobs, manufacturing, Unions, workers' rights
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    The Labour Party sponsored amendments to the Employment Relations Act are a step closer to becoming law. That’s a good thing for working people and a good thing for coalition politics.

  27. Coalition Problems? Tell ’em they’re Dreaming!

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 6:44 pm, September 13th, 2018 -  82 comments
    Categories: accountability, class war, Deep stuff, democratic participation, Economy, election 2017, elections, greens, john key, labour, nz first, political alternatives, Politics, same old national, Shane Jones, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, workers' rights
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    Oh dear. The Winston Peters led governing coalition has completely collapsed and thank God Simon Bridges is there to pick up the pieces. I warned you this would happen! And look! Over there … the sky is falling. Falling, I tells ya!

  28. The Stuart Nash fundraiser

    Written By:  redfed -  Date published: 2:33 pm, June 23rd, 2018 -  9 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, labour, Politics
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    Stuart Nash this week withdrew from a fundraiser organised for him by Matthew Hooton.

  29. Where’s my share?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:00 am, February 14th, 2018 -  35 comments
    Categories: business, class war, Economy, employment, poverty, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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    Had anyone with a job (other than the top 2 tiers of management) had a wage increase higher than inflation recently?

  30. Who will be National’s next leader?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:57 am, February 14th, 2018 -  77 comments
    Categories: bill english, blogs, David Farrar, dpf, humour, national, same old national, Satire
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    Following Bill English’s resignation the question is who will be National’s next leaders.  The Standard authors have put their heads together and come up with some suggestions.

  31. The 2017 General Election electorate expense returns

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:49 pm, February 4th, 2018 -  27 comments
    Categories: act, Amy Adams, democratic participation, elections, electoral commission, greens, jacinda ardern, Kelvin Davis, labour, national, Nikki Kaye, nz first, paula bennett, Politics, Shane Jones, united future
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    Last year’s electorate expense returns have now been made public.

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