Dinosaur Unions Drive Labour's Employment Law

Monday 13 Sep 2004

Rodney Hide - Press Releases - Economy - Employment Campaign

ACT New Zealand Leader Rodney Hide today said that the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill shows the union movement is calling the shots within the Labour Government - not the needs of an innovative and growth-orientated economy.

"The Bill is fatally flawed. It forces employees to conclude a collective agreement, and ensures employers could be fined for simply expressing a true opinion about a union.

"The legislation is designed to prop up unions, and will make it all the harder in New Zealand to employ people and create growth," Mr Hide said.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>