OREWA, New Zealand — Hundreds of angry farmers rode their tractors through 55 towns and cities across New Zealand July 16 in a “Howl of a Protest” against new environmentally motivated restrictions enacted or proposed by the Labour Party government…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “They are us. They belong here. Bring them back!” Unite Union Co-president Tina Barnett told a rally organized by the Federation of Aotearoa Migrants here June 5. Over 800 people marched to demand border restrictions be…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Some 50 people gathered at Aotea Square here June 13 to protest the brutal military regime’s war against the people of Myanmar since it seized power in a coup Feb. 1. Similar protests were held around…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Some 30,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers walked off the job in a nationwide eight-hour strike June 9, after overwhelmingly rejecting the government’s latest contract offer. The nurses work in public hospitals and outpatient services,…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “It’s what we said would happen. Bonus chasing, productivity chasing, it was all going to lead to disaster, and it has,” Carl Findlay, vice president of Local 13 of the Maritime Union, which organizes dockworkers at…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Over 50 bus drivers in a 24-hour strike against NZ Bus staged a spirited picket outside its Kilbirnie depot here April 23. The company responded by locking workers out. The drivers voted 204-2 at an April…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Home-care workers and their supporters were on the picket line again March 12 in their ongoing fight for a union contract. “We’re doing this for the next lot of workers coming up, not just for those…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “Military rule, down, down!” chanted 200 Burmese refugees, students and others here Feb. 5, protesting the Myanmar military’s ousting of the elected government and reimposition of direct rule four days earlier. Many wore the red shirts…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Dozens of home-care workers and their supporters picketed Lifewise services here Jan. 23 against the employer’s attacks on hours and wages and in support of the workers’ demand for a union contract. The E Tu union…
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Fifty home-care workers and their supporters mounted a picket line here Dec. 18 outside the office of Lifewise social services. They are fighting for a union contract. The workers travel to provide care and assistance to…
