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The Wellington bus drivers dispute and the case for rank-and-file committees More than a week ago, drivers employed by NZ Bus in Wellington voted against a sellout deal hatched by the Tramways Union and management. The offer, the third that the drivers have rejected, would have increased hourly wages to just two dollars above the legal minimum, while cutting overtime and weekend rates. Bus drivers picket during the April 23 lockout in Wellington [Credit: WSWS Media] During the ratification meet...

Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:21 am By John Braddock, Socialist Equality Group Several New Zealand health experts have warned that Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party-Greens coalition government has become “complacent“ over COVID-19 and didn’t act fast enough to suspend travel with the Australian state of New South Wales after a positive case from Sydney surfaced in Wellington last week. The New Zealand capital went from alert level 1 to 2, which mandates some social distancing measures, on June 2...

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By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group The latest Knight Frank Global House Price Index showed that New Zealand house prices in the first quarter of 2021 were an astonishing 22.1 percent higher than 12 months earlier. The average global increase was 7.3 percent, ...

Press Release – Socialist Equality Group By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group The latest Knight Frank Global House Price Index showed that New Zealand house prices in the first quarter of 2021 were an astonishing 22.1 percent higher than 12 months earlier. The average global increase was 7.3 percent, the fastest rise recorded since 2006, in the lead-up to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. According to the Real Estate Institute of NZ, the situation is even worse: house prices increas...

Press Release – Socialist Equality Group By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group The latest Knight Frank Global House Price Index showed that New Zealand house prices in the first quarter of 2021 were an astonishing 22.1 percent higher than 12 months earlier. The average global increase was 7.3 percent, … By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group The latest Knight Frank Global House Price Index showed that New Zealand house prices in the first quarter of 2021 were an astonishing 22.1 percent...

By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group 24 June 2021, original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/24/nzbu-j24.html Following a very heated meeting of union members on Wednesday, bus drivers in Wellington voted 150 to 73 to reject a third pay offer from NZ Bus, in opposition to the Tramways ...

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