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After the recent revelation that the New Zealand police have been infiltrating activist groups for the past decade it is worth examining the country’s history of state spying on peaceful protesters. As political scientist Bryce Edwards has...
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Nicky Hager and Anthony Hubbard have revealed that police officers from the Special Investigation Group (SIG), which was set up to identify terrorism threats and risks to national security, have carried out surveillance and used a paid informer to...
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New Zealand’s controversial new employment law, which from March will allow small employers to fire staff at any time in their first 90 days of employment with no legal course of action available to workers, was passed today.
The law has been...
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Within days of officially becoming government National is planning to push though a law change that would allow employers of 20 or less people to hire and fire staff at will within their first 90 days of work. They have labeled this a “probation”...
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Newstalk ZB is reporting that Overall debt levels for local councils are on the rise.
Briefing documents to new Local Government Minister Rodney Hide show local authority debt levels rose by more than 60 percent between 2004 and 2007, from $1.9...
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Union membership and strength in New Zealand fell significantly after the 1991 passage of the Employment Contracts Act under the previous National government, the nine years of Labour government then have shown such continuity of Nationals policies,...
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Yesterday workers at the Pak ‘n Save supermarket on Lincoln Road in Auckland held a picket as part of their campaign to get an improved employment agreement. The site was unionised last year by the National Distribution Union and the collective...
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The Christchurch City Council’s controversial rent increase for social housing has been overturned by the High Court. Legal action was taken by the welfare group the Council of Social Services (Coss), who have achieved a significant victory,...
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New Zealand’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.2%, the highest rate in nearly five years, and the Bank of New Zealand is predicting it will be as high as 6% by the end of next year, a loss of 32,000 jobs. Property and finance, construction,...
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Age Concern, an advocacy group for the elderly, is attempting to highlight the issue of ‘energy poverty’ before the (southern hemisphere) winter brings a power crisis. Energy poverty is defined as households having to use more than 10...
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