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The Council of Trade Unions want us to all get out and vote Labour this year. But the CTU is offering the same uninspiring Labour Party...

The Living Wage Campaign is undermined by both high unemployment and a trade union hierarchy that has nothing to offer but rhetoric. One...

There'll be no Xmas for many New Zealanders this year, thanks to the government's brutal austerity policies. But we have also been ...

This weekend a huge march and rally is being held in London to protest against the Com-Lib government and its austerity policies. The prote...

In the fight against the government's austerity policies, the leadership of the Combined Trades Union has nothing to offer but press rel...

Having dismally failed to put up any significant resistance to the Government's austerity drive, the CTU and PSA want people to vote f...

According to the media reports, which read suspiciously like they have come via the Beehive, the Welfare Working Group is proposing that ...

The bully boys have got what they wanted Despite implying that there was no more money in the coffers and the Government wasn't going to...

The usual cheerleaders for the free market and neoliberalism have been slightly disturbed by the sharp rise in the official unemployment r...

Tomorrow, in what has been widely described as' a council of war', unions will meet to thrash out tactics to combat the National-l...

Unbelievable. Having actively cooperated with the Key Government while it has implemented its austerity measures and in the process turfe...

Since the Key Government came to power some 1500 jobs have gone in the state sector and a further 500 jobs will go this year. Then on TV3...

When John Key talked about real change at the last election I don't imagine many people thought he meant big tax cuts for the wealthy an...

Of course I would never actually do it, but sometimes I think it would be quite nice to kick Andrew Little up the backside. It would be ni...

Between 1982 and the mid-1990s real wages fell in New Zealand some 25 percent and have never recovered. Wages today remain a massive 25 per...

The Government has announced its nine day fortnight package - the tenth day will be replaced by the minimum wage for 'up to five hours...