Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:50 am, April 18th, 2017 - 30 comments
This is a huge victory for health care workers, and for women. It is also a huge victory for “resurgent unions”. Will it alarm the private sector? I certainly hope so!
(Kristine Bartlett, photo Herald Mark Mitchell)
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 4:09 pm, June 23rd, 2016 - 32 comments
You might be surprised to learn this, but you don’t want a pay rise.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:49 am, January 15th, 2016 - 17 comments
It’s been a hardy annual finding of late – the pay gap between males and females is getting steadily worse. History suggests that Labour governments have some answers…
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:12 am, November 1st, 2015 - 116 comments
Well paid staff are happy, productive staff. Who’d have thought it!
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:10 pm, March 12th, 2015 - 8 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the latest Nat omnishambles – these financial “geniuses” can’t even calculate their own pay rates correctly.
Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 4:41 pm, March 2nd, 2015 - 82 comments
Key has folded on MPs’ pay rises. Vernon Small and others are covering events on Twitter.
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 10:57 am, May 20th, 2008 - 62 comments
See that line that says minimum wage? Nearly half of kiwis earn less than that. Seven months ago, that was me. I was working removing asbestos contaminated glue from the floor of an office building along with half a dozen other guys. Now, asbestos is pretty dangerous stuff, inhaling a single thread of it can […]
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 2:55 pm, May 15th, 2008 - 70 comments
The last couple of episodes of Fair Go have rightly taken aim at a distribution company – Reachmedia – that rips off young kids by paying them peanuts. Reachmedia (half owned by NZ Post) has been paying young kids sweatshop wages to distribute pamphlets for the likes of the Warehouse, Farmers, Michael Hill Jeweller, and Progressive Enterprises (the […]
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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