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Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives at public hospitals across New Zealand held an eight-hour strike on June 9 to demand a decent pay offer and safe levels of staffing. Thousands of healthcare ...

The <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> is publishing statements from workers in Sri Lanka supporting the campaign for a full investigation of New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster, which killed 29 men in 2010.

That the NZ Nurses Organisation did not reject the “offer” out of hand indicates that it is organising yet another betrayal and, given its record, will seek to impose the Labour government’s pay freeze.

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By Chris Ross, John Braddock At a stopwork meeting last Thursday, bus drivers in New Zealand’s capital city Wellington voted 204–3 to reject a new pay offer from NZ Bus and approved a fresh round of strikes. Drivers also passed a unanimous motion ...

Bernie Monk, father of Pike River victim: “10 years on, we still haven’t got justice” 27 May 2021 , “Ten years after the Pike River mine disaster: Political lessons in the fight for truth about the deaths of 29 miners.” The webinar was hosted by the Socialist Equality Group (SEG) in New Zealand, to discuss the causes of the 2010 Pike River disaster and the efforts by successive New Zealand governments, aided and SEG member Tom Peters’ reviewed in detail the complicity of National Pa...

New Zealand: Wellington bus drivers reject second pay offer, vote for strikes At a stopwork meeting last Thursday, bus drivers in New Zealand’s capital city Wellington voted 204–3 to reject a new pay offer from NZ Bus and approved a fresh round of strikes. Drivers also passed a unanimous motion of no confidence in NZ Bus management, declaring the company was not fit to run public transport services. Bus drivers protesting the lockout on April 23. (Credit: WSWS Media) The meeting followed a ...

New Zealand: Sister of Pike River mine disaster victim makes powerful statement demanding continued investigation 23 May 2021 is re-posting a by Olivia Monk, whose brother Michael was one of 29 men who died in the November 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster in New Zealand. Andrew Little, the minister responsible for Pike River in Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party-led government, has rejected a by mining experts, prepared on behalf of 23 of the 29 families, to fully investigate the ...

The Socialist Equality Group and the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> urge workers internationally to send statements supporting the families of the 29 men who died at Pike River, demanding a full and thorough investigation and the prosecution of the company leaders who turned the mine into a death trap.

New Zealand’s Labour-led government, which includes the Greens, recently declared a pay freeze across the public service for the next three years. The move, which extends a measure introduced last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, will inevitably be used to suppress wages in the private sector as well. Public Service Minister Chris Hipkins announced that workers earning more than $NZ60,000 will only be offered pay increases under “exceptional” circumstances, while increases for those on ...