KEITH LOCKE (Green) to the Minister of Labour: Why is the Government introducing legislation to restrict union access to workplaces when the Department of Labour advises that there is no “widespread evidence” of union representatives misusing the current system?
KEITH LOCKE to the Minister of Agriculture: Will he ask the Pork Industry Board if they were aware that Thomson and Clark Investigations were collecting information for them on animal rights campaigner Rochelle Rees by means of a tracking device planted under her car; if not, why not?
The National Party announced at its Annual Conference what Russel Norman described as “setting employment relations in New Zealand back two decades”. If passed the changes will take away workers' rights, remove protections, cut pay, reduce holidays and diminish access to sick leave. The NZ Council of Trade Unions is leading a fightback against these proposals, and has the full support of the Green Party. There will be lots to do - submissions to write, rallies and marches to attend, and industrial action to support – if we are to defeat these attacks on workers’ rights
The Greens will support the Governor-General Bill. As other speakers have said, it represents a step forward, a modernisation beyond the practices of the colonial era.
The Government should resist pressure from the Police Association to arm frontline police officers, Green Party Police spokesperson Keith Locke said today.
An inordinate amount of Government time and energy is being misspent on reforming the ‘claim of right’ law after its use in the trial of the Waihopai Three, Green Party Human Rights spokesperson Keith Locke said today.
Prime Minister John Key should withdraw his support for a regional processing centre for asylum seekers in the wake of its rejection by the Timor-Leste Parliament, the Green Party said today.