Photo by: Jared Stevenson (Newshub) As the biggest strike in New Zealand history looms, a tectonic microscope is being cast over our education system. Primary and secondary teachers have voted to strike on Wednesday in an unprecedented industrial action that’s being...
Part 2. by YWRC acting-Chairperson Melissa Goodman. I am not a blogger, nor a writer, I am just a simply activist living my life and sharing a story with you. The story is not straight forward, but it certainly has its heroes and villains. In this instance the story...
Mel Martin recently voyaged across the world to San Francisco, Oakland, and the famous University of Berkeley, California to observe a Young Workers Leadership Academy hosted by the Labor Occupational Health Program. I’m not short, and I’m not particularly hairy, but...
Ask for the pay rate Technically this belongs to the job interview stage but its important to emphasize how important this is. So many people are too intimidated or shy to ask how much they are going to be paid if they accept a job offer, but it’s a perfectly fair...
Robots taking over human society has long been fodder for dystopian sci-fi movies like Terminator, The Matrix, I Robot, and Westworld. These stories are so compelling in part because of the real possibility that it could happen. What if I told you it is happening? No,...
Hiring young people is an investment. There is a science behind managing young workers and many employers don’t put in the effort. But those that do have a powerful opportunity to develop the future of their business. Recently Massey University published a guidebook...
