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Written By: The Standard - Date published: 1:30 pm, March 8th, 2010 - 6 comments
Happy International Women’s Day. If only there was something to celebrate.
“We are deeply concerned about the current attacks on workers’ rights that will badly impact on women,” said CTU President Helen Kelly…
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:22 am, February 19th, 2010 - 11 comments
When you’ve got a Finance Minister who can’t get stats right, a Social Welfare Minister who can’t define her flagship policy, and an Education Minister who can’t explain her flagship policy, it’s easy for an incompetent Women’s Affairs Minister to slip through.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 3:30 pm, July 3rd, 2009 - 10 comments
A short video from the NZEI from Tuesday’s pay equity rally at Parliament.
There are also a bunch of photos on flickr from the CTU, EPMU and TEU.
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:59 am, July 1st, 2009 - 55 comments
I am outraged to learn that the Department of Labour told its employees they were not allowed attend the pay equity rally at Parliament yesterday.
A leaked email from the department to its staff said:
“Attendance at such a demonstration may well be perceived as crossing the line by criticising a decision of the Government. The …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:00 am, June 22nd, 2009 - 33 comments
Now, some might want to look further into David Garrett’s misdemeanours. Some might ask how many strikes does this guy get?:
Drunkenly equating homosexuals with paedophiles on Eye to Eye.
On criticism double-bunking will lead to an increase in assault and male-on-male rape, said: “The fact is if you don’t want to be assaulted – or worse …
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 10:02 am, June 22nd, 2009 - 15 comments
I’d prefer not to wade into the David Garrett sexual harrassment fiasco, but having seen his pathetic blame-shifting in the media I’ve got to call bullshit on him.
Both Garrett and his boss Rodney Hide have been downplaying the sexual harassment with the excuse that Garrett was an oil rig worker for ten years, so it’s …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 3:06 pm, June 21st, 2009 - 52 comments
It’s a good outcome of the Worth scandal that these things are now being dealt with. Worth was known as a man women steered clear of around Parliament. Even back at Simpson Gierson. It was never dealt with until it got really serious. Garrett has been held to account for behaviour Worth got away with. …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 7:34 pm, June 17th, 2009 - 65 comments
Despite women being 51% of the population, and it being women who won National the last election, they are still showing their contempt for us.
State Services Minister Tony Ryall decided that pay equity isn’t important, dropping a study into why female public servants are still paid less than their male counterparts in the same job …
Written By: rocky - Date published: 7:48 am, June 12th, 2009 - 165 comments
I haven’t really wanted to get involved in the whole debate surrounding Richard Worth. It’s horrible and messy, and makes me feel sick every time I see fuel added to the fire. It was no surprise to see the creep Cameron Slater (Whale Oil) publish her name, but it was a surprise to see the …
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 1:06 am, June 10th, 2009 - 108 comments
The Tories are throwing all the muck they can at Goff. Trying to get him to back off on the Worth thing. Their latest is that Labour is spinning out this presentation of texts to Key to drag the issue out.
Thought I would take a leaf out of Eddie’s book and do a timeline. Clear it up …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 11:55 am, June 7th, 2009 - 104 comments
On Q+A this morning, Phil Goff was asked by Paul Holmes for more detail on why John Key wasn’t surprised when he took the sexual harassment complaint against Richard Worth to him.
According to Goff, Key said that he had been aware of rumours of similar activity by Worth and that was one reason why he …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:51 am, June 6th, 2009 - 50 comments
There’s still a lot of confusion on the Right, in particular, about the sequence of events in the Worth saga, so I’ve tried to reconstruct it below (btw, thanks to John Armstrong for using his time machine and advising us “The [Dover] Samuels case had negligible impact on the new [Labour-led] government’s subsequent fortunes. The same …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 11:21 am, May 14th, 2009 - 2 comments
Green MP Catherine Delahunty is running an e-card campaign to support public sector pay equity after National announced it would be cancelling pay equity reviews and sacking the team responsible for them.
It’s a stark reminder that nothing has really changed since National dumped pay equity legislation immediately after taking office in 1990.
You can add your …
Written By: Dancer - Date published: 5:07 pm, March 8th, 2009 - 5 comments
A couple of weeks ago I listened to a very interesting interview with Dr Diane Purkiss (audio here) on Nine to Noon. I missed the opportunity to post on her findings of the “dumbing down” effect, but then I spotted the same discussion in this Sydney Morning Herald article.
Rom-com heroines used to be witty and …
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 11:52 am, March 2nd, 2009 - 34 comments
National/ACT’s record for women so far has been dismal . Their work rights have been slashed by the Fire at Will law (women are disportionality employed by small businesses), they were all but excluded from the Job Summit (despite women being the most heavily affected by job losses and reduced hours), they got only a …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 3:32 pm, February 27th, 2009 - 39 comments
I grabbed the stills from this Herald video of the Jobs Summit – can you see her? Worth watching the first 10 seconds of the vid too for Key’s sleepytimes moment. Poor dear, this running the country thing must be exhausting.
Play more Jobs Summit spot the odd one out below:
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 10:03 am, October 24th, 2008 - 132 comments
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t have the arguments and facts at your fingertips to make a decisive point. That’s where our election series, The Standard line, comes in. The info you need in bite-size form. Today: photoshop
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Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 11:56 pm, October 12th, 2008 - 47 comments
When I saw this guy using the guise of a Youtube debate question to attack Clark on her appearance, I felt sorry for the little jerk – what a pathetic life he must lead.
When I saw Bill ‘do what it takes to win’ English do the same thing (at 1.30), while an audience of old, …
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