Part 2! In 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise it’s workforce. But workers in Wairoa and towns across the country said no
Read MoreIn 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise it’s workforce
Read MorePhilip & Justine talk to Aimee Simpson & Leon Salter from the Tertiary Education Action Group Aotearoa (TEAGA).
Read MoreBranko and Kyle talk NZ’s housing market, recent COVID and Immigration/MIQ news and briefly touch on the current situation with Cuba.
Read MoreIn 2016, Aotearoa New Zealand’s parliament passed a law banning the use of Zero Hours Contracts. In the preceding two years, Unite the Union had forced fast-food companies to stop using them in their contracts
Read MoreWe talk with Byron Clark about the groups involved with last week’s “Farmers’” protests organised by Groundswell NZ.
Read MoreOn this day 35 years ago, July 9, the homosexual law reform bill passed it’s third reading and sex between men was finally decriminalised. The campaign polarised New Zealand to levels not seen since the Springbok Tour in 1981, as a vicious anti-campaign took hold, driven by fundamentalist churches.
Read MoreWe speak with David Slack about alternate media platforms like Substack, the inertia of current established media, and the challenges for independent journalists and content creators.
Read MoreWe spoke with Lisa Meto Fox about the announcement of an official Government apology for the Dawn Raids, the context and history of that, and the generational effects of the policy.
Read MoreBranko and Kyle speak with Olivier Jutel about the NZ National Party's swing into some hard bigotry and discuss the recent reappearance of the COVID-19 'lab leak' theory.
Read MoreIn 1981, at the same time as Ronald Reagan, an anti-tax, far right celebrity won the Presidency, socialist Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington in the then conservative state of Vermont.
Read MoreWe speak with Ti about the situation post-Waikeria protests and People Against Prisons Aotearoa’s Reconnection Fund. Justine then speaks with us about recent Israeli atrocities in Gaza and Palestinian human rights.
Read More1/200 and guest Paul Kelland talk NZ’s Budget21, the public service payfreeze, welfare, and everything else we could get to in Budget discourse.
Read MoreOn May 29 2019, Aotearoa New Zealand’s entire education sector went out on a ‘mega-strike’, for the first time in history.
Read MoreWe talk #payfreeze austerity from NZ Labour and incompetence from UK Labour before Branko interviews President of the Migrant Workers’ Association Anu Kaloti about migrant work and migrant rights in NZ.
Read MoreKyle speaks with John and Reece about the NZ Rugby sale to Silver Lake and the failure of the European Super League pitch earlier in April.
Read MoreKyle, Branko and Justine cover some of the week’s politics before talking with President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions, Richard Wagstaff, about workers rights in Wellington following strike action and an indefinite lockout of NZ Bus workers by their employer.
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