Feb 23, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Gilbert Wong International business expert Christina Stringer has lifted the lid on migrant workers facing serious exploitation in New Zealand. When a temporary migrant worker queried his $8 an hour wage for an 80-hour week job, his employer told him, “We are the...
Apr 20, 2020 | Business & Economics
New Zealand is currently in the middle of a lockdown as the country attempts to eliminate COVID-19. With this, only essential services are operating. Much of those essential services are everyday things like public transport or food stores. The workers in these areas...
Apr 15, 2020 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
The United States has fast become the most affected country by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aside from the hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 cases, the pandemic has also led to mass unemployment and widespread strike action by workers. Rachel Simpson spoke with Paul Taillon...
Oct 23, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Vanessa Cole Economic and Social Research Aotearoa’s Vanessa Cole critiques Labour’s Kiwibuild policy and whether it can help solve the housing crisis in New Zealand. The Labour-led coalition that came into power in 2017 have vowed to address New...
Jun 22, 2017 | Business & Economics
Maria Armoudian talks to Jessica Gordon Nembhard about worker-owned cooperatives and whether they can transform workers’ lives and livelihoods. Jessica Gordon Nembhard is an Associate Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development in the...