Don’t get me wrong, New Zealand is no perfect pearl. There’s a bounty of issues. Inequality is rising dramatically. Sprawl around Auckland is a huge issue. Environmental impacts on some of the island is devastating. There are interesting signs of progress though, and they are worth looking at closely. There are too many reminders of …
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From Heaven to Hell and Back Again for Unions in New Zealand
Auckland Interviewing Mat Danaher of E tu, the largest private sector union in New Zealand with 50,000 members, on Wade’s World, I got a much better idea of the organizing climate and context confronting unions – and workers – in New Zealand. It’s quite a story of going from almost the best circumstances unions might …