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Issue No. 143 | 05 July 2002 |
Bad Bosses
Interview: Media Magnet Bad Boss: Abbott's Heroes Technology: All in the Family International: New Labour's Cracks Economics: Virtuality Check History: Necessary Utopias Poetry: Let Me Bring Love Review: How Not To Get It Together Satire: NZ, UK Added to Australia�s Migration Zone
Revealed: The Evidence Cole Won�t Touch WorkCover to Set Up Crimes Unit Electricians Oppose Family-Busting Conditions Blue-Collar Blokes Back Mat Leave Murdoch Telegraphs Contracts Push Abbot Changes Rules for �Employer Advocate� Funding Cuts Drives Academics Mad Star City Casino Strike On The Cards Chifley Planners Lose Benefits Qantas Staff Sick of Shivering Regional Councils Call Jobs Summit Kiwi Ex-Pats Targeted for Poll Push Shangri-La Workers Still Fighting
The Soapbox The Locker Room Bosswatch Week in Review
Buggering the Bush The Great Giveaway Down and Out Why I hate Telstra
Labor Council of NSW |
News Kiwi Ex-Pats Targeted for Poll Push
NSW unions are moving to make New Zealanders aware that absentee voting will be easier than ever this year in a response to overtures from Richard Prebble who predicts his right wing Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (ACT) will clean-up the substantial overseas vote. Under New Zealand's system of proportional representation a party vote, as opposed to an electorate vote for an individual candidate, is central to deciding the shape of the next Government. Eligible Kiwis can enrol via the internet up to the day before polling and even those on the dormant roll have been informed that their party votes will probably count. Labor Council is asking affiliates to make sure Kiwi members know their rights and exercise their ballots. New Zealand Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson told Labor Council the current Labour-led administration, headed by Helen Clarke, had made an excellent start to rolling back years of right-wing legislation. He highlighted improvements to the minimum wage, paid parental leave, a new Employment Relations Act, renationalisation of accident compensation, increased investment in industry training and a comprehensive economic development program, and said new health and safety, and holiday laws were on the drawing board.
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