From No Right Turn:
The police spying scandal just gets worse and worse. In addition to spying on activist groups and political parties, it also seems that the police spied on unions. Police spy Rob Gilchrist systematically passed on emails from the CTU, EPMU, NDU, NUPE, the SFWU and Maritime Union. The emails cover protests, pickets, ( Read more... )

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People who don't surf the blogosphere might've missed this, but the Police have recently been caught out spying on a whole lot of vaguely leftist groups under the auspices of the SIG anti-terrorism unit ( Read more... )

As expected, the 90 day fire at will bill has been passed as by 63 votes to 51, removing the rights of workers in small businesses to take action against unjustified dismissal in the first 90 days of employment. The legislation takes effect in April ( Read more... )

It's now up on the NZ Legislation website:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2008/0008-1/latest/DLM1765606.htmlPretty much as expected, with the added loophole (as pointed out by Idiot/Savant) that employers can sack you if ( Read more... )

I'm going to be handing one of these petition forms from the EPMU around, and I strongly encourage anyone else who cares about this to do the same.

http://www.epmu.org.nz/assets/GG-Petition.pdfThe National government is rushing all three stages of this bill through under ( Read more... )

This article stunned me.They're not even pretending to play nice. Their excuse for circumventing the entire democratic process is that they're "not doing anything Labour hasn't done before". How fucking spiteful and nasty can you get ( Read more... )

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