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South Asia Media Solidarity Network Bulletin - October 2013

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:02:07 +1300 | International Federation of Journalists

Welcome to the e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) for the month of October 2013. The next bulletin will be sent on November 15, 2013, and inputs are most welcome.More >>

Fiji: Media registration required in lead-up to election

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:58:59 +1300 | International Federation of Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins with Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF), the regional media monitoring group, in being deeply concerned that requirements proposed by Fiji’s media authority for foreign media trainers, independent journalists ...More >>

IFJ condemns Philippine’s journalist accreditation scheme

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:57:39 +1300 | International Federation of Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins with its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in condemning House Bill 2550, the misnamed “Magna Carta for Journalists”, which seeks to impose an accreditation ...More >>

Price increases hitting low incomes and people in Canterbury

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:22:21 +1300 | Council of Trade Unions

“The sharp increase in the CPI this quarter, bringing it to a 1.4 percent increase for the year, is mainly in areas that hurt lower income families. In addition people in Canterbury are particularly hard hit”, says Bill Rosenberg, CTU economist.More >>

NZ fisheries under spotlight of global union campaign

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:24:53 +1300 | Maritime Union of New Zealand

The New Zealand fishing industry is under the spotlight at a major international union meeting on the Asia Pacific fishing industry held in Auckland this week (15–17 October 2013).More >>

Senior Doctors Endorse Nurses Concerns Over Secret TPP

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:52:41 +1300 | Association of Salaried Medical Specialists

“Senior doctors endorse the concerns raised by nurses about the secret negotiations over the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, today. Mr Powell was commenting ...More >>

Report shows further evidence of National Standards failure

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:34:28 +1300 | NZEI

Suggested changes to the reporting of National Standards by a Government advisory group show that the Government has been reduced to “spin” in order to fix the unfixable.More >>

Time for Civics and Citizenship education in our schools

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:23:16 +1300 | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

“The very low voter turnout for the local body elections this year points to the urgent need for Civics and Citizenship education in our schools. This has been a serous gap in New Zealand’s education system for a long time and the recent election ...More >>

Union gobsmacked by Air New Zealand’s brazenness

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:49:22 +1300 | EPMU

It defies belief that Air New Zealand is applying to employ aircraft engineers from overseas, only a week after its subsidiary Safe Air announced that it has to let 69 workers go and it proposes to lay another 190 off in Auckland due to a lack of ...More >>

District Court Wrong on Charanpreet Dhaliwal's Death

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:15:47 +1300 | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

The decision yesterday by the Waitakere District Court that the employer of murdered security guard Charanpreet Dhaliwal did not need to take further steps to ensure his safety lowers the bar for all workers making them all less safe, CTU President ...More >>

Attack on Journalist in Pakistan’s Abbottabad City Condemned

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:00:33 +1300 | International Federation of Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and partners in the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) are shocked and horrified by the latest instance of an attack with obvious lethal intent on a journalist in Pakistan.More >>

New Structure to strengthen trade unionism in Arab countries

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:03:20 +1300 | ITUC

Brussels, 11 October 2013 (ITUC OnLine): At the request of 17 national trade union centres from the Arab region (in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine Tunisia and Yemen), the ITUC General Council meeting in ...More >>

DHBs urged to look after staff affected by shared services

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:55:01 +1300 | Public Service Association

The Public Service Association is urging District Health Boards to ensure that workers affected by a new shared services plan can be retained or redeployed within their own DHBs.More >>

Jobs must be saved at Independent Fisheries

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:58:14 +1300 | Service And Food Workers Union

The union representing workers at Independent Fisheries has called on the National government to back 200 workers at Independent Fisheries, who are facing job loss with no redundancy.More >>

TTPA not democratic and not right, nurses say

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 11:42:10 +1300 | NZNO

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is joining thousands of other organisations and individuals in calling for the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), currently being negotiated in secret, to be made public.More >>

Gordon Campbell on Cunliffe's speech, and the Lundy decision

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:38:12 +1300 | Gordon Campbell

The style of David Cunliffe’s speech to the Council of Trade Unions conference yesterday was almost as important as the content. Plainly, Labour now has a leader able to deliver a message consistent with the party’s core values, in a clear and ...More >>

Peters: Political Panel - NZ CTU Biennial Conference

Wed, 9 Oct 2013 17:31:58 +1300 | New Zealand First Party

This has got to be a red letter day. Despite being a former union delegate for the most lowly union in the country, the labourer’s union, a student of industrial law and having a long career in New Zealand politics, this is the first time I have ...More >>