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October 27, 2009 7:40am by David Farrar

General Debate 27 October 2009

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thedavincimode

“a motley crew of Pashtun peasants, angry young religious men, gangsters, highway robbers and anti-government rabble-rousers sprinkled around Pashtun country in Afghanistan”

Good heavens. You never mentioned that you had family in Afghanistan decrepid little magpie man …

… aka … the lone blogger leading the sitting down jihad …

Would they calm down a bit if we sent them each a couch, a TV and an internet connection?
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October 28, 2009 4:26am
Viking2

A new day and new subjects for debate. Alas no new GD this early.
Now here is a good reason to abolish unions and a outstanding message to those that populate the hieracy of those anachronisms to class debate. (People like Philu ) 34 workers went on strike. 6 yep that’s right only six had a job when the dispute ended. Now in a little place like Waharoa that’s 28 families sidelined. Well done NZ dairy workers Union. All for a collective contract that really is worth shit all.

Open Country row ends with jobs lost
By NICOLA BOYES – Waikato Times
Last updated 05:00 28/10/2009

DISPUTE OVER: Workers outside the gates at Open Country Cheese in in Waharoa, Waikato. The dispute ended with a settlement but only six workers will resume work.

A month-long industrial dispute at Talley’s-owned Open Country Dairy in Waharoa, Waikato, is over but only six of the 34 locked-out workers will return to work.

A confidential settlement has been reached for employees, who had been trying to negotiate a collective employment contract.

Under the settlement, six of the 34 workers will return to the factory. The others have been made redundant.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/3004582/Open-Country-row-ends-with-jobs-lost/
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October 28, 2009 6:47am
expat

Viking, what concerns me is the notion that the union gimps led those workers into a political fight and now the workers have been made redundant while the union gimps continue on stealing money from the workers via their membership tithe.

Disgusting behaviour from the NZ dairy workers Union.
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October 28, 2009 7:10am
Pete George

Has there ever been any analysis done of the real effectiveness of strikes? Financially they must only be lose-lose, and they can’t do much for employer/employee relations.

Yeah expat, the union, they may lose a few members but that’s hardly comparable.
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October 28, 2009 7:11am
expat

Imean the guys who have lost jobs because of the politicking the NZ dairy workers Union was up to (taking it to the “tory” government even though you could argue Key is more liberal than Clark who truly did have fascist tendencies)
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October 28, 2009 7:18am
Luc Hansen

thedavincimode (464) Vote: Add rating 0 Subtract rating 1 Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 4:26 am

Obviously too much of a stretch for some of you to google the phrase and get some real reporting on what’s happening over there.

FixedNews it ain’t!

The bonus is that the style of reporting is completely different to what we are used to. Go on, extend yourselves…

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KH20Df01.html
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October 28, 2009 8:10am
big bruv

Luc

Just when I thought we were having a reasonable discussion you go and ruin it with this little gem…

“It’s just bad luck being Pashtun at the moment with the US killing Pashtun civilians at will”

I imagine you will be hard pushed to find a credible source for that stupid statement.
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October 28, 2009 8:12am
thedavincimode

wot?
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