WORKRIGHTS NZ
Do you hear the people sing? At 430pm today, the workers will rise up against Miserable bosses at an Auckland site. http://unitenews.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/do-you-hear-the-people-sing-at-430pm-today-the-workers-will-rise-up-against-miserable-bosses-at-an-auckland-site/
Forestry Death Renews Calls For Inquiry Into Industryhttp://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00024/forestry-death-renews-calls-for-inquiry-into-industry.htm
Second Forest Death this year http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00057/second-forest-death-this-year.htm
Union leader supports private equity tax clampdown http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/125852/union-leader-supports-private-equity-tax-clampdown
Robert reid
Julie Fairey: Pay fairly and all of society wins http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10859797
NZ workplace safety a ‘national disgrace’ – consultant http://www.nzherald.co.nz/small-business/news/article.cfm?c_id=85&objectid=10859227
Graduate earnings report confirms gender pay gap http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00076/graduate-earnings-report-confirms-gender-pay-gap.htm
Air NZ in call centre move http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10859130
Facing a future as Australia’s poor relations http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/8193631/Facing-a-future-as-Australias-poor-relations
Chef who harassed boss wins $30k http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8190371/Chef-who-harassed-boss-wins-30k
POVERTY & WELFARE DEBATE
Auckland Action Against Poverty 2012 highlights
Feed the Kids Bill deserves Select Committee scrutiny http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00085/feed-the-kids-bill-deserves-select-committee-scrutiny.htm
Support mounting for MANA’s Feed the Kids Bill http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1301/S00078/support-mounting-for-manas-feed-the-kids-bill.htm
‘Feed the Kids Bill’ Opportunity to Improve Lives of NZ Kids http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00083/feed-the-kids-bill-opportunity-to-improve-lives-of-nz-kids.htm
Nurses support ‘Feed the Kids’ Bill http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00088/nurses-support-feed-the-kids-bill.htm
Who wouldn’t want to feed the kids? http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00089/who-wouldnt-want-to-feed-the-kids.htm
Call for all MPs to support Food in Schools Bill http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1301/S00091/call-for-all-mps-to-support-food-in-schools-bill.htm
Gordon Campbell On the crisis in affordable housing http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2013/01/22/gordon-campbell-on-the-crisis-in-affordable-housing/
Gordon Campbell On the subsidies for The Hobbit. http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2013/01/17/gordon-campbell-on-the-subsidies-for-the-hobbit/
When a state house was for life http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10858440
Affordable housing? It’s right under your nose, guys http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10859866
Asset sales petition gets its numbers http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8141848/Asset-sales-petition-gets-its-numbers
STATS OF THE WEEK
The world’s 100 richest billionaires netted $240 billion in income last year, calculates the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. That would be enough, notes a just-released Oxfam International report, to end extreme global poverty four times over.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“Billionaires warn higher taxes could prevent them from buying politicians.” Headline from the New Yorker magazine Borowitz Report, a look at the “news reshuffled,” December 9, 2012
