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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud

@irritabletauiwi.bsky.social

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100% my own whakaaro not employer’s 🇮🇹 tauiwi in Ōtautahi, musings about life teens politics, antifascism, MH❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🫶🏼mutual support, gardening, DYI pātai. Toitū Te Tiriti. Sorry I can’t help too long strings of posts you were warned.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 8h

I was thinking the same, I was wondering if frogs had any specific significance for Māori to avoid any unintended paru

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 21h

Oof that’s a lot of them 😳

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO it is NOT the Unions OR the workers who are the problem. The End.

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Or people I talked to during early COVID times who worked in minimum wage precarious jobs and their manager would knock at the door at home uninvited to question why they were isolating and not at work.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Or the young acquaintance who fell from a sketchy scaffold and was unable to work for a long time, gained life long health challenges, was not paid for that day or paid sick leave and didn’t qualify for most ACC support and Worksafe didn’t want to know about any of that cause it was a cash job.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

It’s more like a friend reprimanded by their minimum wage service industry employer when they had NOT YET gone back to work THREE days after the mosque attacks (a close family member was injured in the attacks).

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

I know my experience is still super privileged and real workers problems are others, and workers’ exploitation looks vast different.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

What helped our self taught (very unsafe & uncomfortable) negotiation was not HR or anybody in the org but an online tool a union published to compare salaries with comparative roles across the motu. Our boss supported the negotiation up to a point but I suspect they were not popular for that.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

I worked in another non unionised place. 3 of us did the same job with very similar education and professional background for VASTLY different $ and conditions. I won’t bore you with how our roles compared with male colleagues at the same level of the org structure, but go on, take a wild guess.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

He was offered the paid study leave at the same time as mine was declined. He was expecting the very same baby, but somehow his commitment was not questioned.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

My partner at the time had worked for less than me for the same employer. I had delayed my application for paid study leave the previous year when HR suggested we did just one more job before applying for study leave so HE would also be eligible for said paid study leave.

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

After many years of working for them I was told I would not get paid study leave as per organisation policy & as previously agreed by HR, because - tadaaa ! - I was now pregnant and “my priority would be my family” according to HR

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

As an adult I worked for a long time in a non unionised workplace. My partner at the time and I worked together for several years, he would get long term contracts and I would get six months short term ones in the same team renewed at the very last moment.

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

As a teen and young person I worked cash jobs in hospitality and retail for approximately 13 years earning a pittance and with zero evidence of work for pension purposes. I never thought there was anything wrong with it. My parents didn’t ever say that was not on.

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Most of my parents’ friends were doctors or other former public servants who took early retirement and worked privately, with wives with no independent income or pension & houses and kids looked after by cleaners and nannies working cash jobs for decades with no paid sick leave or pension plan.

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

I was not raised political. I grew up in a middle class yuppy conservative household in 1980s Italy. Adults around me described Unions as corrupt. I remember a lot of talking about avoiding to paying taxes as a normal aspect of adult life.

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Took the day off sick, mute me or forgive my too long 🧵 rant after I caught up with news about strikes unions workers etc

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Āe New World St Martin’s is traditionally a great source of the sturdy banana boxes they use to have giant piles of them at the back. So much easier for them to drop off a load of boxes to the City Mission folks, they could even pitch in with some produce to put in those boxes

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider speaking out if in the end you decide you’re a fan of public services, public servants, collective action including through the unions, and understand the reasons why public servants and their unions are calling these strikes 🙂 ❤️

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Unions are NOT the enemy. Public servants are NOT lazy or entitled. Most public servants work super hard so that everyone in Aotearoa can have affordable quality healthcare education water transport & other essential services that ideally we shouldn’t have to fight for.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Unions do not just randomly go decide to strike for the fun of it. Unions members vote if a strike needs to happen or not. A strike is a big deal and a stressful + decision to make for any worker.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Aotearoa folks who are not public servants, could you please talk to public servants in your lives and learn more about the strikes and the unions if you don’t know much about that stuff? I’m NOT a fan of this trend of pitching the public against public servants, their unions and their strikes.

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This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Marzapane ❤️🇮🇹is so simple to make too the skill issue is finding 1) not stale almonds that 2) you don’t need to take on a bank loan to buy

This 🇮🇹 tauiwi is NOT proud @irritabletauiwi.bsky.social · 1d

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