Posts by Sacha
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Upthread, there was discussion about the 90 day fire at will law hastily passed before christmas. Lo, today comes news that the kindergarten teachers are trying to negotiate it out of their contract.
However a spokesman for Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson, who steered the bill through Parliament, said there was nothing in the law to stop unions, or individuals, and businesses negotiating out the probationary period.
He said the Government had always envisaged that might occur in jobs or sectors where employers were having problems recruiting staff.
Weren't we told that the law change was needed urgently to make it easier to recruit staff?
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Romantic lot that we are..
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I feared it was more along the lines of get the devil behind thee..
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Gepetto shuffles off to Wyoming in a wheelchair, Pinocchio's packed off to Texas. Pity, really - I'd kind of hoped they'd end up together as an exhibit in some kind of creationist museum, next to the sodomites 'n stegosaurus.
Genius worthy of repeating. Love it.
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Joe, I'm hopin rectitude isn't some kind of euphemism..
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Chuck, feel free to argue the underlying facts - but wouldn't you concede that the advert Ralston is bitching about does not unfairly demonise men? That's what attracted my attention.
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Another story by Pat Pilcher: Copyright law dust-up turns into a war of words.
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A decade is a long time in gender politics. Imagine what those adverts might have looked like ten years ago.
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And Chuck, where on earth do those adverts - or any others on New Zealand tv - come close to resembling this passage from that American article:
The battered women's advocacy movement, which has led the campaign against domestic abuse, is heavily influenced by radical feminist politics and tends to frame the issue in terms of a male "war against women."
The mission statement of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence links "violence against women and children" to "sexism, racism, classism, anti-semitism, able-bodyism, ageism and other oppressions."
Booklets funded by government and by charities such as United Way assert that "battering is the extreme expression of the belief in male dominance over women."
Sounds a bit 90s Backlash from here, although I suppose the perpetual relevance of Palestine gives you points for the anti-semitic reference.
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Polishin their guns, I'd imagine..
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