NZ Bus hires PR firm led by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's former chief as contract dispute drags on
Twitter Gordon Jon Thompson, the former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has been hired to do PR for NZ Bus during the driver strike. In a statement on Thursday, NZ Bus chief executive Jay Zmijewski said the company had been left with “no option" but to issue the lockout notice “in response to the strike action, the disruption we have been experiencing, and the threat of further ‘surprise attack strikes’ by the union”. NZ Bus is owned by Australian private equity firm Next Capital, which acquired it for $229 million in 2018. He had the role while her intende...