This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud

I was thinking the same, I was wondering if frogs had any specific significance for Māori to avoid any unintended paru

Oof that’s a lot of them 😳

IMHO it is NOT the Unions OR the workers who are the problem. The End.

Or people I talked to during early COVID times who worked in minimum wage precarious jobs and their manager would knock at the door at home uninvited to question why they were isolating and not at work.

Or the young acquaintance who fell from a sketchy scaffold and was unable to work for a long time, gained life long health challenges, was not paid for that day or paid sick leave and didn’t qualify for most ACC support and Worksafe didn’t want to know about any of that cause it was a cash job.

It’s more like a friend reprimanded by their minimum wage service industry employer when they had NOT YET gone back to work THREE days after the mosque attacks (a close family member was injured in the attacks).

I know my experience is still super privileged and real workers problems are others, and workers’ exploitation looks vast different.

What helped our self taught (very unsafe & uncomfortable) negotiation was not HR or anybody in the org but an online tool a union published to compare salaries with comparative roles across the motu. Our boss supported the negotiation up to a point but I suspect they were not popular for that.

I worked in another non unionised place. 3 of us did the same job with very similar education and professional background for VASTLY different $ and conditions. I won’t bore you with how our roles compared with male colleagues at the same level of the org structure, but go on, take a wild guess.

He was offered the paid study leave at the same time as mine was declined. He was expecting the very same baby, but somehow his commitment was not questioned.

My partner at the time had worked for less than me for the same employer. I had delayed my application for paid study leave the previous year when HR suggested we did just one more job before applying for study leave so HE would also be eligible for said paid study leave.

After many years of working for them I was told I would not get paid study leave as per organisation policy & as previously agreed by HR, because - tadaaa ! - I was now pregnant and “my priority would be my family” according to HR

As an adult I worked for a long time in a non unionised workplace. My partner at the time and I worked together for several years, he would get long term contracts and I would get six months short term ones in the same team renewed at the very last moment.

As a teen and young person I worked cash jobs in hospitality and retail for approximately 13 years earning a pittance and with zero evidence of work for pension purposes. I never thought there was anything wrong with it. My parents didn’t ever say that was not on.

Most of my parents’ friends were doctors or other former public servants who took early retirement and worked privately, with wives with no independent income or pension & houses and kids looked after by cleaners and nannies working cash jobs for decades with no paid sick leave or pension plan.

I was not raised political. I grew up in a middle class yuppy conservative household in 1980s Italy. Adults around me described Unions as corrupt. I remember a lot of talking about avoiding to paying taxes as a normal aspect of adult life.

Took the day off sick, mute me or forgive my too long 🧵 rant after I caught up with news about strikes unions workers etc

Āe New World St Martin’s is traditionally a great source of the sturdy banana boxes they use to have giant piles of them at the back. So much easier for them to drop off a load of boxes to the City Mission folks, they could even pitch in with some produce to put in those boxes

Please consider speaking out if in the end you decide you’re a fan of public services, public servants, collective action including through the unions, and understand the reasons why public servants and their unions are calling these strikes 🙂 ❤️

Unions are NOT the enemy. Public servants are NOT lazy or entitled. Most public servants work super hard so that everyone in Aotearoa can have affordable quality healthcare education water transport & other essential services that ideally we shouldn’t have to fight for.

Unions do not just randomly go decide to strike for the fun of it. Unions members vote if a strike needs to happen or not. A strike is a big deal and a stressful + decision to make for any worker.

📣 Aotearoa folks who are not public servants, could you please talk to public servants in your lives and learn more about the strikes and the unions if you don’t know much about that stuff? I’m NOT a fan of this trend of pitching the public against public servants, their unions and their strikes.

Marzapane ❤️🇮🇹is so simple to make too the skill issue is finding 1) not stale almonds that 2) you don’t need to take on a bank loan to buy

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I’m resisting hard to the urge to slip into the “ if only _ voted”. Isn’t that the simple explanation, that it’s somebody’s fault who could do it and just didn’t? Is there anything else or different we can do for the next general elections instead?

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Doing life admin. Bank person tells me banks don’t HAVE to pass on the OCR cut to fixed term loans 😳

Well Ingrid, look at you asking questions! 🥇

Thank you @tinangata.bsky.social sharing news of the RSB select committee report which 😳recommends the bill is passed 😳with minor changes 😳 and explains next steps vt.tiktok.com/ZSUkESkn3/

A graphic tile that says Breaking news 17,00 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge & Specialist health workers to strike on Thursday October 23. The Stand Together For Health and PSA logos are in the corners.

📢 1,700 Policy, Advisory, Knowledge and Specialist health workers have voted to join strike action on 23 October. The strike follows the failure of Health NZ Te Whatu Ora to provide an offer during bargaining that fairly reflects their value to the public health system.