Fleur Fitzsimons

Huge crowd today in Wellington at our meeting to resist and oppose this Government’s destructive agenda. Unions will keep this opposition up every day between now and the next election. This Government is dangerous and divisive and must be stopped.

People’s SC on pay equity - with former MPs from Labour, National, Greens, and NZ First - putting out a report today suggesting pay equity changes were a violation of the rule of law and breached various laws and conventions.

Under National, you can get from your insecure work to your unaffordable home in record time!

The fudge served its purpose, gave Taxpayers (not-a-) Union attention and made this Government’s austerity agenda look moderate by comparison. #OvertonWindow #FalseFlag

Yep, 100 percent this.

We shouldn’t be naive and think the PSA union and a centre-right government are going to agree on everything. However, sometimes, with dialogue, some shared positions can be found. A good meeting on Thursday with PSA National Secretaries Duane Leo and @FleurFitzsimons where some understanding could be found.

Kia Kaha to the workers of @NZPSA. Your strike for better public health services resonates around the world!

1/ Luxon says NZ can’t pay teachers properly because we’re not as wealthy as Ireland. As per usual with this dolt, he manages to be both wrong and wrong-headed. 🧵 (1/7)

Oops. I read Judith's letter! It's really bad! I'll try and keep this short. First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]

When workers rights are under attack, stand up, fight back! #DireEmergency #SolidarityWithFireFighters

Government claims to be focussed on law and order but won't build new Courtrooms or upgrade existing facilities. Judges and court staff deserve better than unmanageable workloads and unsafe work conditions - will they listen to the Chief Justice on this? nzherald.co.nz/nz/chief-justi…

Emeritus Professor James Belich ONZM is worried recent cuts at the Ministry of Culture and Heritage are shortsighted. He says we still have so much to learn about the history of New Zealand and its interactions with the world. Listen here rnz.co.nz/national/progr… #HistoryMatters

#NZ Govt has spent $10m to fix the national war memorial’s bells, but has fired the carillonist - the only person who can play them, reports ⁦@radionz⁩. This is what public spending cuts have come to. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Workers rallied to mark the formal filing of our legal action against the government for stealing $12.8 billion from low paid women workers. #payequity #UnionStrong @nzteu

Merging the Ministries for Women and Pacific People's into other agencies would water down their role in analysing Government policy and giving free & frank advice on Cabinet Papers, so much for the evidence based decision making this Government promised rnz.co.nz/news/political…

You can almost hear the sighs of relief from the jobless and job-insecure, the teetering small business owner, the sacked public servant, the householder on the brink. “Did you hear that, everyone? He says it’s gonna be okay!”

#BREAKING: We are calling on the Prime Minister to show leadership by removing Brooke van Velden as Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, following her recent comments that politicise the Employment Relations Authority and breach the Cabinet Manual. 1/6

🫧🫧Simon Watts in opposition said Local Water Done Well would not increase rates compared to Labour's Three Waters. He's not saying that now.

Solidarity with teachers today, nothing like kids being at home for us to *really* appreciate teachers!

"If Brooke van Velden and Christopher Luxon thought avoiding a select committee process would allow them to dodge accountability for stealing $12.8 billion from low paid women workers we’ve got news for them." - @GreyNZ rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Rates capping is such a bad idea, here's something we prepared earlier... psa.org.nz/news-media/cap…