Michael Wood
@michaelwoodnz
Occasional dispatches from Mt Roskill.
Stand up for Pay Equity Public Meeting on tonight in Mt Roskill. Great speakers. A chance to learn more and join the campaign to win back a fair pay equity system for working women. Share around and come along!
Weak as piss all round, even after a kid has died. Any org associated with this idiocy has enforceable duties under the Health & Safety at Work Act. I'd have had Worksafe in my office telling them to start knocking on the doors of those making $$ from it. nzherald.co.nz/nz/run-it-stra…
Stand up for Pay Equity Meeting this coming Friday 30 May. $12.8 billion ripped away from working women - share around & join us to be part of the fight back.
Here's a good speech on the importance of pay equity , the need to get settlements in place to support fairness for women, & a plea to not make the process harder... from Louise Upston, current @NZNationalParty Minister, in 2018. For shame. parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-…
What a disgrace. The deregulatory ghouls of ACT blather about road cones & non-existent H&S requirements on small businesses, while another NZ workers dies at work. Pathetic that National & NZF who were part of the Post-Pike reforms stand idly by.
And here we have the proud urbanist transport Minister Chris Bishop at work… defunding major PT improvements that would deliver huge urban benefits to Christchurch. Nice speeches about urbanism excited some but the reality is same old PT hating National thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360623…
First time using Parnell Station to get into UoA today. Really busy with students & the path through the Domain & Nicholls Lane works well. Investment in Parnell station received some criticism at the time so good to see it working well.
New favourite cricket viewing experience. Think Americas Cup animation circa 1995.
All of the focus has been on Seymour being a boofhead, but how good was the security guard here? He has to come out to face down the soon-to-be DPM surrounded by media & firmly puts him in his place in about 5 seconds. Show pony 0, Working guy 1. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/se…
The morbid realities of the coalition in a nutshell: ACT & NZF will competitively strut to own the climate denialist fringe while National puts forward a weak target for appearances sake that it will then do nothing to achieve.
Climate Minister confirms commitment to targets amid Paris Agreement debate newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather…
Electric trains now connect Pukekohe to the Auckland Metro network! A major @nzlabour NZ Upgrade investment coming to fruition, which alongside our investment in triple tracking & new stations in Drury will be a massive uplift to rail in South Auckland 1news.co.nz/2025/02/02/tra…
We'll see what tomorrow brings, but NZ's previous biggest defeat of ENG by runs is 199 in 2015. 4 @BLACKCAPS from the Hamilton test were there + 1 current England coach! espncricinfo.com/series/new-zea…
I cannot believe that this is a quote from the Treasury's chief economist. This is simplistic flawed, and, frankly dangerous, advice. We need an actual plan to achieve a 'balanced economy' - not austerity, medieval monetarism, and exporting flogging more logs. Ffs.
