Gordon Campbell on Labour’s backdown over the Hobbit law (and Jami-Lee Ross)
Clearly, Jami-Lee Ross is not waging a normal form of political warfare, with agreed rules of combat and rational cost/benefit calculations.
Employment Contracts Act
Gordon Campbell on Jim Bolger’s task force for workplace reform
The neo-liberal wing of the National Party has never really felt that Jim Bolger was one of them, and the feeling was entirely mutual.
Our Union-Powered Past
Labour’s workplace relations policy has sparked fears of a return to the 1970s. But what exactly was happening in the 1970s?
Gordon Campbell on the snap election in Britain
Supposedly, Theresa May’s calling of a snap election in Britain is all about ‘getting a mandate’ and ‘leadership’ and other such cant. In fact, the […]
Out Of Control
How and why New Zealanders have come to be putting in longer hours at work…
Death Rides A Quad Bike
The human costs of our “light-handed” approach to workplace health and safety
Sleight of Hand
With 90 day trials, the government has broken its decades-long bargain with workers