FIRST Union takes aim at exploitative ‘gig economy’

FIRST Union’s Real Work Real Jobs campaign is expanding its focus to include ‘gig economy’ workers like Uber drivers and dependent contractors, with the public release of the union’s submission on the Government’s Better Protections for Contractors discussion document. Thousands of New Zealand workers are engaged in ‘gig economy’ work, much of which flies under […]

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National Party’s minimum wage bluster helps no one at all

FIRST Union General Secretary Dennis Maga says that this morning’s comments from National Party Finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith that the party would consider scrapping the Government’s proposed minimum wage increases if elected shows that they apparently do not have working peoples’ interests at heart and would seek to make New Zealand a more unequal society, […]

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