Wellington City Council has just voted to support the Living Wage ‘in principle’, put $250,000 in the budget to research and implement it, and – crucially – has extended it to cover contractors not just in-house staff. It’s a great moment: not 100% of the way, since they haven’t put aside all the money...
Read more →I’ve just been sent this image by some good people who have put this sign up in the Waipu area. Nice and simple … and effective.
Read more →Great news: Wellington City councillors have voted unanimously for a report on the Living Wage to be prepared, as follows: “to inform the annual plan deliberations on a proposed Council commitment to support a Living Wage. The report should advise on the following key points: · Whether Wellington city council should support the principle of a...
Read more →Today the campaign for a Living Wage – an $18.40 an hour pay rate for hard-working New Zealanders – took another big step forward with an amazing presentation to the Wellington City Council. A huge delegation, one of the biggest the council has seen in a long time, was led by St Andrews on...
Read more →For well over a year now, I’ve been asking the Department of Corrections to give me its two full business cases for building the new public private partnership (PPP) prison at Wiri in South Auckland. And for well over a year, it’s been refusing. So the question is, why’s it holding things back? The...
Read more →The idea that most of the world’s failings are down to irresponsible poor people is a familiar one, but rarely has it been dealt with better than here. On a Stuff story about people failing to recycle, a commenter has somehow managed to wedge in their own angry views about feckless poor people, to...
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