New Zealand
A Country Considered to Be Free - New Zealand and the IWW
"Towards a Transnational Study of New Zealand Links with the Wobblies", an essay by Mark Derby which looks at New Zealand's relationship with the IWW.
In the 1890s a New Zealand watersiders’ leader announced to his members, “We have no flag, we have no country.”[1] He was declaring the internationalism of labor at a time when patriotism and imperialism then characterized the population.
Ridge, Lola: anarchist and poet
A brief biography of Lola Ridge, New Zealand anarchist and poet by Mark Derby.
Her published collections of poetry included defending Tom Mooney, Sacco & Vanzetti, and recalling the death of Frank Little.
New Zealand Dairy Workers Locked Out
New Zealand company Open Country Cheese, part-owned by Talleys and tied to various National Party MPs via New Zealand's Dairy Investment Fund and Kaimai, is fighting dirty in an attempt to break workers seeking a collective agreement with basic redundancy and transfer of undertakings protection.
From Aotearoa Indymedia:
Solidarity Issue #4 - July 2009
The fourth issue of Solidarity, free newssheet of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM). Download the .pdf below (1.79MB), or visit the AWSM website to read the contents online.
Contents:
* Women workers push for pay equity
* Workers on the flu front line: Fight for respect!
* Meet the greedy: Rob Fyfe, Air NZ CEO
* Super city hikoi in Auckland
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Flight attendants stand strong against lock out across New Zealand
240 flight attendants spent Thursday 7th - Sunday 10th May locked out from work across Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The attendants are contracted to Zeal 320, a shell company owned by Air New Zealand, and operate on trans-Tasman and Pacific routes for the airline.
Despite doing the same job as flight attendants contracted directly to Air NZ, the Zeal crew are paid significantly less. The Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU), which represents the workers, has been negotiating with Air NZ for months, but Air NZ have been unwilling to move towards pay parity for the Zeal staff.
Solidarity Issue #3 - May 2009
The third issue of Solidarity, free monthly newssheet of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM). Download the .pdf below (1.24MB), or visit the AWSM website to read the contents online.
Contents:
* Locked out Zeal workers stand strong!
* Zeal 320 Interview
* What is May Day?
* May Day 2009 Report: Auckland
* May Day 2009 Report: Wellington
* May Day 2009 Report: Blackball
* The curator of Baghdad: a story from Guantanamo
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Solidarity Issue #2 - April 2009
The second issue of Solidarity, free monthly newssheet of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM). Download the .pdf below (2.88MB), or visit the AWSM website to read the contents online.
Contents:
* In the sky and on the phones - workers stand strong and fight back!
* On the privatisation of prisons
* Shark alert in the Hutt Valley
* Solidarity with migrant workers
* What is anarchist-communism? Part 1
* Water meters too scary for Mayor Kerry
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Solidarity Issue #1 - February 2009
The first issue of Solidarity, free monthly newssheet of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (AWSM). This issue has a special feature on water issues across Aotearoa / New Zealand. Download the .pdf below (617KB), or visit the AWSM website to read the contents online.
Contents:
* Not our crisis! Resist attacks on workers
* Water meters for Wellington?
* Profile: Auckland Water Pressure Group
* He wai Maaori - Drinking water in Parihaka
* Say NO to the 90 Day Hire & Fire Act!
* AWSM Aims & Principles
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Auckland call centre workers stand strong against lock out and nuclear ship visits
50 Unite Union members at the OCIS call centre in Auckland, New Zealand stood strong on Friday night after their employer locked them out. The lock out came after three weeks of wildcat strike action by workers.
Small groups of, nearly all teenaged, interviewers and supervisors had been regularly walking off shift, especially during unpopular weekend shifts. Scuffles broke out and the police turned up Friday night as officials and members attempted to rush the door to the call centre.
New Zealand McDonald's workers escalate campaign
1300 McDonald's workers, members of the Unite union, are escalating their campaign in the wake of yesterdays conference of McDonald's bosses refusing to lift pay rates or offer real security of hours.
The world's biggest fast food corporation, McDonald's, is facing a summer of strikes, pickets and a boycott as 1300 union members escalate their campaign in the wake of yesterdays conference of McDonald's bosses refusing to lift pay rates or offer the same security of hours that Restaurant Brands union members get.
