A common practice was for a worker to be paid their contractual amount, but then forced to repay the difference between $8 per hour and minimum wage back to the employer, allowing the business to maintain legitimate records. Some workers reported working between 70 and 90 hours a week at $8 per hour. A migrant worker on a dairy farm said he worked 32 days straight without a day off, each day lasting up to 14 hours.
Exploitation left people devastated and desperate. Stringer recalls a person who had given up their hopes of residency and was returning to their home country. The person was just broken. They had absolutely given up and this and other interviews were very emotional, they ended in tears.
February 25, 2021 10:40 PM
Tuesday, March 2
Scripps College’s Scripps Presents series continues with two free and open to the public virtual lectures on Tuesday, March 2. The first, at 4 p.m., is “Cultural Technologies in M?ori Contexts,” with Lisa Reihana and Matua Rereata Makiha. Join via Zoom at https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/93151817946.
The second, at 5 p.m., is “What Does a Feminist Foreign Policy Look Like?” It is moderated by Alisha Haridasani Gupta, gender reporter for the New York Times, and will feature of panel of women with experience in international diplomacy and economics. Information for this event is at https://www.scrippscollege.edu/events/calendar/what-does-a-feminist-foreign-policy-look-like.
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A prominent fighter for social justice and advocate for Māori economic independence is being taken to join his ancestors.
Manuka Henare died on Saturday morning after a period of illness.
One of the original urban Māori, he was born in Auckland but maintained strong connections to whānau in Whangape and north Hokianga.
After an early introduction to the business world as management cadet at Winstones, he went on to work for the Catholic Church as a youth worker, for aid organisation Corso, and back to the church to run its foreign aid programmes.
Supermarket musical chairs : 4 Pak nSave, New World stores said to be changing hands
21 Jan, 2021 04:34 AM
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Supermarket store sales - big business. Photo / Greg Bowker Four upper North Island supermarkets worth tens of millions of dollars are being sold in a musical chairs-style of transactions triggered by the pending sale of what is thought to be New Zealand s biggest revenue-earning store.
Stores in the Foodstuffs North Island co-operative at Albany, College Hill, Birkenhead and Te Kuiti are said by insiders to be changing hands because owner/operators can only control one outlet at any one time.
All the deals are said to be triggered by the pending sale in August of Pak nSave Albany which is said by insiders to then spark ownership changes to New World Victoria Park and possibly New Worlds at Birkenhead and Te Kuiti.