Labour Day is on Monday. We can thank Samuel Duncan Parnell for this. (Wikipedia) Labour Day is on Monday. The annual last long weekend of the year for most New Zealanders (Canterbury has Show Day on Friday 13 November). It is a chance to reflect on our rights as workers, the progress we have made … Continue reading Labour Day weekend a chance to reflect
The coming mini-general strike in New Zealand
On Thursday 23 October over 100,000 nurses, doctors, midwives and teachers are going to strike. Whilst not a general strike in the sense that workers across the employment spectrum go on strike, this is expected to be the biggest in New Zealand in decades. It is too small to be called a general strike. It … Continue reading The coming mini-general strike in New Zealand