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Posts Tagged 'workers' rights'
The real story of the ports dispute
Written By: FairnessAtWork - Date published: 1:14 pm, February 29th, 2012 - 120 comments
MUNZ workers and their families explain in their own words how changes being promoted by management of the Auckland City owned Ports of Auckland will affect their families. Watch this video to find out what the Ports of Auckland dispute is really about:
Ports of Auckland and casualisation
Written By: FairnessAtWork - Date published: 12:57 pm, January 27th, 2012 - 11 comments
CTU President Helen Kelly talks about the Ports of Auckland and the effects of casualisation on workers and workplace health and safety.
Sleepover Bill in House tonight
Written By: Jenny Michie - Date published: 4:10 pm, September 27th, 2011 - 48 comments
Bloody Klowns
Written By: Bill - Date published: 9:13 am, February 5th, 2011 - 80 comments
Ever been in a job where you thought you were underpayed and overworked? Ever voiced those feelings to your workmates? Either on the job, or during 'smoko', over the telephone or through some other electronic medium?
A Burger King employee in Dunedin has. And now, astonishingly, faces the possibility of being fired for serious misconduct.
A Case of IHG?
Written By: Bill - Date published: 11:30 pm, October 6th, 2010 - 31 comments
Seems these days that when people get in to financial strife, the Government is all too happy to offer a helping hand loaded down with wadges of cash. Sometimes…
And then sometimes something altogether more short and sharp is offered. Depending…
Fairness at Work rallies 21 & 22 August
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:54 pm, August 20th, 2010 - 56 comments
Workers are getting together to oppose the government's changes to employment law with rallies in the four main centres this weekend. Join your rally.
The Saturday rallies against National's anti-work rights bill assemble at:
Auckland, QE2 Square, bottom of Queen St – 1pm
Wellington, Civic Square – 1pm
Christchurch, Catherdal Square – 1pm
and on Sunday:
Dunedin, Dental School, Great King St – 11am
Lazy academic calls Pacific Island workers lazy
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 3:00 pm, May 21st, 2008 - 74 comments
Economist Greg Clydesdale has released a report in which he says Pacific Islanders are a drain on the New Zealand economy (exhibiting "significant and enduring under-achievement" and "that can contribute little to economic growth" in his words). I accept Clydesdale's cry that he is not a racist. No, he is just a fool who is […]
Workers be careful, says Aussie Unionist
Written By: Dancer - Date published: 10:13 pm, May 7th, 2008 - 158 comments
Sharan Burrow (President of Australian Council of Trade Unions) talked to Morning Report about the union experiences in Australia under a conservative government, and their hope for the future with Kevin Rudd. She also had some words of warning for NZ workers: "We say to your workers here, be very careful, you don't want to […]
I've got a solution, what's the problem?
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 9:44 am, April 23rd, 2008 - 38 comments
The junior doctors' strike is a difficult issue. On the one hand, these are highly valuable workers whom we can't afford to lose overseas and they do work long hours in difficult conditions. On the other hand, the pay rise they want would cost $50 million and is well above what other medical professionals have […]
What would National do?: Emigration
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 11:58 am, April 22nd, 2008 - 18 comments
Simon Power has hit on the fact that Stats New Zealand produces migration figures every month, and that means every month he gets to report the number of New Zealanders heading for Australia as if a) the number is unprecedented, which it is not b) it's all the Government's fault, which it's not. Not that […]
National makes work rights the defining issue
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 1:41 pm, April 21st, 2008 - 32 comments
National's strategy, the strategy of a weak party, is to present a 'small target' by promising to change virtually nothing if they were in government. Problem is, their small target has a great big bull's-eye on it called work rights. With flip-flops on health, education, welfare, annual leave, parental leave, assets, Working for Families, Kiwisaver, […]
Written By: irrigate - Date published: 5:10 pm, April 17th, 2008 - 74 comments
With the loss of 500 ANZ National jobs to Bangalore India and 430 jobs from Fisher and Paykel to Mexico announced today, a pattern is emerging. The race to the bottom has picked up speed. Companies are increasingly outsourcing their work to low wage economies, like China, India and Mexico, putting hundreds of New Zealand […]
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 4:35 pm, April 17th, 2008 - 33 comments
Hmm, spot the difference in the headlines of two press releases out today: 'Fisher & Paykel Appliances Announces Global Manufacturing Strategy' 'Next Steps in ANZ National's business transformation' Cut out the weasel words and what is the net result 930 fewer jobs in New Zealand. The two companies involved, Fisher & Paykel and ANZ National, […]
Cost of benefit system plummeting
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 1:40 pm, April 17th, 2008 - 26 comments
Continuing our benefits theme, here's a look at how much the benefit system costs you. The figures are the combined expenditure by the Government on the Unemployment, Sickness, Invalids', and Domestic Purposes benefits per day per working age New Zealander, in 2007 dollars. Sources: MSD (1,2,3), StatsNZ (4,5) The portion of the working age population […]
On the scrapheap
This graph shows the number of people employed in New Zealand, and employment would have been had the number of people with a job as a portion of the working-age population had remained steady at 76% as it was before 1987. Look what happened during the rightwing economic revolution from 1987 to 1999 (when National […]
A decent job with fair pay
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 11:36 am, April 15th, 2008 - 30 comments
That's what the labour movement is all about: ensuring that people who want to work can find jobs and that they receive fair reward for their labour in decent conditions, so they can afford a good standard of living for themselves and their families. A job gives people a sense of purpose, a feeling that […]
Bad politics
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 8:23 am, April 13th, 2008 - 91 comments
National's current attempt to stop the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union from registering as a third party pretty much proves what we all knew. They have no interest in democracy. Rather than accept the decision of the Electoral Commission and move on they've decided to appeal the decision and apply for an injunction to stop […]
National forced to support meal breaks
National has found itself politically unable to oppose the amendment to the Employment Relations Act that will ensure workers are entitled to meal breaks and to breastfeed at work. But they will be offering only 'cautious' support to a Bill that protects such basic rights, and only to select committee stage. Kate Wilkinson, National's labour […]
Fair and balanced
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 11:17 am, April 8th, 2008 - 16 comments
The Herald could barely contain its self-satisfaction when National's David Farrar complained to the Electoral Commission that the country's largest private sector union, the EPMU, which comprises 50,000 working New Zealanders, should not be allowed to register as a third party under the Electoral Finance ACT. ' Law gags friend as well as foe' proclaimed […]
Davey gets it wrong again
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 3:57 pm, April 4th, 2008 - 79 comments
David Farrar's latest political campaign on behalf of the National Party has, like so many of them before, foundered on the sharp rocks of reality. In an attempt reminiscent of the ramshackle PR fiasco that was the Free Speech Coalition, DPF tried to get the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union's application for third party status […]
In praise of ACC
Written By: Dancer - Date published: 2:21 pm, April 3rd, 2008 - 34 comments
It was nice to see this independent report into the ACC scheme by Price Waterhouse Coopers. Amongst the general positive comments was this observation: "The ACC under its current implementation structure performs as well or better than most other schemes we can observe around the world." "No fault" models (such as ours) are associated with: […]
Sack Spotless
Written By: Tane - Date published: 7:20 pm, April 2nd, 2008 - 14 comments
I've just got back from a small but very vocal picket outside Spotless' corporate HQ on The Terrace in solidarity with the 800 cooks, cleaners and orderlies from hospitals around New Zealand who began 24 hours of strike action today. They're striking because despite agreeing to a pay deal with Spotless last year the company […]
The trans-Tasman wage gap
Written By: Tane - Date published: 2:01 pm, April 1st, 2008 - 107 comments
Now this is rich. National, the party that gave New Zealand its low wage economy, is running the line that the trans-Tasman wage gap is "Labour's legacy". You'd think such a shameless rewriting of history would be laughed off in a second, but it seems in the age of the memory hole even senior political […]
April 1 changes boost wages and cut taxes
Written By: Steve Pierson - Date published: 10:02 am, April 1st, 2008 - 15 comments
Today is a big day for government policy affecting Kiwis' incomes: The minimum wage is now $12 an hour, up from $7 when Labour gained power. Youth rates have been effectively abolished, meaning young people will get the same pay for the same work. From today, employers must contribute to employees' Kiwisaver accounts equivalent to 1% […]
An embarrassing effort
Written By: Tane - Date published: 10:18 pm, March 27th, 2008 - 36 comments
Ever since the Herald lost its rag over the EFA I've come to expect little more than half-truths and inaccuracies from its editorials, but today's effort was particularly disappointing. Business NZ press release in one hand and a keyboard in the other, the Herald had itself all wound up over suggestions that proposed minimum entitlements to meal […]
Written By: irrigate - Date published: 1:54 pm, March 26th, 2008 - 8 comments
Legislated breaks for workers are unnecessary according to Business New Zealand chief executive Phil O'Reilly. His bitter protest against proposed changes to employment legislation that would guarantee rights to breaks that workers should have anyway, was joined by Hospitality Association chief exec Bruce Robertson despairing that no one is allowed to do anything anymore. Phil […]
Meal breaks
Written By: Tane - Date published: 1:46 pm, March 26th, 2008 - 13 comments
I had planned to write something about the business lobby's moaning over Labour's plans to restore workers' rights to meal and rest breaks, but as usual No Right Turn nails it perfectly: The government's plan to restore a minimum entitlement for breaks in the workplace has produced the usual reaction: squealing from employer's groups, with the Hospitality […]
Blackball centenary
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 4:32 pm, March 25th, 2008 - 10 comments
The weekend marked the centenary of the Blackball miners' strike. TV3 reported that: "Politicians flocked to Labour's spiritual home on the West Coast to celebrate the centenary of a miners' strike which helped build the country's Labour movement into a political force."
Whatever, Roger
NZers' wallets will bulge under Act, says Roger Douglas. Sure they will Roger – with the bills from our kids' user-pays schools, our privatised hospital fees, water charges, private accident insurance premiums and, if your party gets half a chance, the privatised oxygen from the air we breathe. Because we all know who gets rich […]
Nationalise Air New Zealand
Written By: Tane - Date published: 8:59 am, March 18th, 2008 - 65 comments
The recent scandal over Air New Zealand underpaying its Chinese workers to the tune of four times less than their New Zealand counterparts comes as no surprise given the sick management culture at our national carrier, and highlights some serious contradictions in the airline's ownership structure. Here we have a company that's 80% owned by […]
Tax cuts = no rise in the minimum wage?
Written By: Dancer - Date published: 3:04 pm, March 13th, 2008 - 26 comments
From the ABC site: "A peak business group says the Federal Government's promised tax cuts should be taken into account when deciding on an increase to the minimum wage. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry is proposing a rise of $10 to $11 – in line with last year's increase. The ACTU is lobbying for […]
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The smartest guys in the room
If you are looking for the PM, try Napier – and for good measure she might have something to say
Buzz from the Beehive We drew another blank, when we checked the Beehive website this morning for ministerial announcements, pronouncements or denouncements. Nothing has been posted since January 16, when Damien O'Connor announced he was travelling to Europe this week to discuss the role of agricultural trade in climate change ...
Few favourable economic signals in sight, but there's a glimmer of light in GDT dairy export price...
Kiwis returning to work after their summer breaks and scanning the economic horizon may find few encouraging signals. Even the agricultural sector, which proved to be the mainstay at the height of the Covid pandemic, is now having to navigate the inflation raging in the domestic sector. As well, ...
Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Thomas Coughlan (Herald): National reshuffle awaits, Labour and Nat MPs descend on Napier for awkward week (paywalled) Felix Desmarais (1News): Analysis: The three Government announcements pundits expect next week Will Trafford (Whakaata Māori): No guarantee Māori-stacked cabinet will continue – Ardern Stuff: Wealthy donors ...
The rich are trying to buy the election
The Herald this morning reports on the rich's efforts to buy this year's election. And you'll never guess who their chosen vehicle is: The National Party may start election year with a $2.3 million war chest raised from 24 big donors in 2022, while Labour has declared just $150,000 ...
No news (about missing children) might be good news – but who knows?
Here's more from the "no news today" file. Under the heading Wellbeing of missing Marokopa children huge question mark – psychologist, RNZ reminds us that three children have been missing with their father for a year. Marokopa father Thomas Phillips and his three children Jayda, Maverick, and Ember have not ...
No news is good news
Buzz from the Beehive Our visit to the Beehive website this morning found nothing new since Damien O'Connor posted the announcement of his journey to Europe this week to discuss the role of agricultural trade in climate change and food security, WTO reform and New Zealand agricultural innovation. No news, of ...
Bryce Edwards' Political Roundup: National can't be allowed to sleepwalk to victory
DR BRYCE EDWARDS writes – Christopher Luxon's National Party are the odds-on favourites to win the general election this year. They have been consistently ahead of Labour in the polls in recent months, and have a firm coalition partner in Act, which is often polling about 10 per cent. Betting ...
Bryce Edwards: National can't be allowed to sleepwalk to victory
Christopher Luxon's National Party are the odds-on favourites to win the general election this year. They have been consistently ahead of Labour in the polls in recent months, and have a firm coalition partner in Act, which is often polling about 10 per cent. Betting agencies can't take bets on ...
Improving AT's responses to PT disruption
Disruptions to public transport have long been a frustrating fact of life in Auckland, but the last year has taken this to a whole new level, with the ongoing longterm rail shutdowns with bus replacement services, plus thousands of bus cancellations a day becoming a regular occurrence. Things are currently so ...
Can induction stoves convince home cooks to give up gas?
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah Wesseler You walk into your kitchen to make pasta. After filling a pot with water, you place a small silicone mat in the middle of your counter, then set the pot above it and open a stovetop app on your phone. ...
Dirty tricks in National Party candidate selection
The extreme right-wing conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxer who was outed in Nicky Hagar's "Dirty Politics", Cameron "Whaleoil" Slater, has resurrected himself and is now promoting a campaign for his sometime-associate, Simon Lusk, to disrupt National's candidate selection for the Tukituki electorate. ...
Tolkien-Related Stress II: Scanning the Oath of Fëanor
I have just taken a stab at scanning Tolkien's famous Ring Verse: https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/tolkien-related-stress-scanning-the-ring-verse/ I noted that the problem with the Verse is that it is too loose in its accentual nature: it is sometimes unclear where the four stresses are supposed to fall on a given line. I ...
Tolkien-Related Stress: Scanning the Ring Verse
You know it as well as I, the famous Ring Verse from The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien: Three Rings for the Elven Kings under the sky Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their halls of stone Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die One ...
Looking ahead to voters opting for a progressive government, a reactionary one – or maybe somethin...
Cabinet ministers obviously are enjoying the final days of their summer break while their desks back in Wellington are piled high with the problems of a country beset with raging inflation, labour shortages and a pandemic that refuses to go away. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had her ...
Climate Change: A successful policy
The Herald has an annual roundup of electric vehicle stats this morning, and it shows us that the government's clean-car-discount - which sees buyers of dirty vehicles pay to subsidies purchases of clean ones - has been a hugely successful policy: New Zealand broke two records for electric vehicles ...
Westminster means hate
When England was an empire, it used colonialism to spread bigotry and hate, leaving a legacy of homophobic legislation around the world. And now, they're using colonialism to force bigotry and hate on Scotland, by vetoing Scotland's gender recognition law: Rishi Sunak's government has blocked legislation passed by the ...
Reform of the WTO, food security and climate change are on the agenda as O'Connor heads for Europe
Buzz from the Beehive Just as soon as he was back on duty, Damien O'Connor was packing his bags for a journey to Europe. But first he announced a second dollop of dollars for flood-ravaged farmers, this time in the Wairarapa. Government funding relief for flood-affected Wairarapa farmers and growers ...
Is The Prime Minister "Evil"?
She's Such A Scream! The Prime Minister's enemies, those who want us to hate her, suffer from the not insubstantial handicap of being more than a little hateful themselves. Rendered nonsensical by their unwavering belief in the most absurd conspiracy theories, and dangerous by their relentless peddling of fake news ...
Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Gordon Campbell. On National's fraught journey back to the centre Duncan Garner (TodayFM): Could National lose it from here? Simon Wilson (Herald): The 2023 election is a choice between the best Government yet, and the worst (paywalled) Peter Bale (North & South): Home, and Away Thomas Coughlan ...
Rail buses are a pain – but they don't have to be
This is a guest post by reader Grady Connell. It was originally published (in October 2022) on Today FM. Road closed ahead. It's a dreaded sign to see during any journey on the roading network. Seeing this sign usually means bumper-to-bumper traffic and a 10-minute or more longer detour ...
Greater AucklandBy Guest Post
New paper: Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections
This is a quick summary about the newly published paper "Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections" by Professor of Environmental Science and Policy Geoffrey Supran, Professor of Physics of the Oceans Stefan Rahmstorf and Professor of the History of Science Naomi Oreskes. It leverages a thread tweeted by Geoffrey Supran shortly after ...
Political Roundup: What Japan's foreign policy shifts mean for New Zealand
Geoffrey Miller writes: Japan is a country on the move. Since World War II, Tokyo has largely been happy to outsource its security needs to Washington. But this is now changing to a more equal partnership. On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called his country's alliance with ...
While O'Connor and McAnulty bring succour to flood victims, ACT unleashes a stream of warnings to ...
Buzz from the Beehive The government is still in holiday mode if the Beehive website serves as a guide. ACT politicians, in contrast, are busy beating the law-and-order drum. The Minister for Emergency Management, Kieran McAnulty, has announced Government help for communities in Tairāwhiti that were battered by Cyclone Hale. ...
In Praise Of Individualism.
Me, Myself, Eye: The great irony of individualism is that the nearer humanity comes to the point where every person can make their own life, the more doubtful many intellectuals become of its merit. But, before embracing the moral oblivion of collective identity; and the strictures of tribal tradition, they ...
Gordon Campbell on National's fraught journey back to the centre
Ever since Christopher Luxon became leader, National has adopted a "small target" strategy. This consists of offering nothing to distract the media from its focus on the government's shortcomings and the public's discontent with its performance. In particular, the strategy involves releasing no policy alternatives whose own failings might then ...
Whatever happened to AT's "Statements of Imagination"?
Once upon a time, our city dared to dream – and dared us all to dream, with the encouragement and examples of other cities just like ours – of what Auckland could be. If we slipped free of old shackles and bad habits. If we were creative, adaptive, and a little ...
Greater AucklandBy Jolisa
Geoffrey Miller: What Japan's foreign policy shifts mean for New Zealand
Japan is a country on the move. Since World War II, Tokyo has largely been happy to outsource its security needs to Washington. But this is now changing to a more equal partnership. On Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called his country's alliance with the United States 'stronger than ...
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Jan 8, 2023 thru Sat, Jan 14, 2023. Story of the Week Relentless Rise of Ocean Heat Content Drives Deadly Extremes The heat of global warming will keep penetrating deeper into the oceans ...
Another January, another annual data point. As in years past, the annual rollout of the GISTEMP, NOAA, HadCRUT and Berkeley Earth analyses of the surface temperature record have brought forth many stories about the long term trends and specific events of 2022 – mostly focused on the impacts ...
Real ClimateBy Gavin
Flashback Saturday: How to fund the CFN and save $14 billion
Most Saturdays we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was first published in September 2013 (note: you can now dig into our archives yourself by scrolling down and looking on the right hand side of the page). On the topic of the Congestion Free Network, we frequently get ...
The Economy in 2023?
The two most comprehensive forecasts of the New Zealand economy are by the Reserve Bank and the Treasury. They are especially important because they inform monetary and fiscal policy. What do they say?Shortly after the Reserve Bank and Treasury published their end-of-year forecasts, Statistics New Zealand announced a 2.0 percent ...
ANPR should require a warrant
On Tuesday, the Herald broke the news of a massive increase in ANPR surveillance by police, from mere dozens of uses in 2020 to thousands in 2022, and that police had lied in their internal documentation when they said the system was audited to ensure use was legal. And today ...
Flooding and logging -Homepaddock wonders if there's one rule for forestry and another for the re...
Homepaddock reports – Friends who farm inland from Gisborne have lost power and their roads are impassable. The damage is worse than it would otherwise have been because forestry slash has been washed down rivers. A Tairāwhiti resident says her home would not have flooded if it wasn't for a ...
The rain came down – and so did the debris from logging operations in the flood-damaged Gisborne r...
Buzz from the Beehive Damien O'Connor, as Minister for Rural Communities, has broken his 2023 duck and issued his first press statement of the year to announce government support for flood-affected farmers and growers in the Gisborne region. We have yet to hear from Forestry Minister Stuart Nash, but he ...
Items of interest and importance today HEALTH, COVID Rachel Thomas (Stuff): Move to police financial interests in healthcare desperately needed, radiologists say Rachel Maher (Herald): 90-year-old left bleeding on bathroom floor with head injury for two hours while waiting for ambulance Selah Hart (Herald): Empowering communities to effectively combat alcohol ...
Welcome back to our Weekly Roundup, where we cover some of the many stories from home and abroad that caught our eyes recently. This week's header image is courtesy of @ScootFoundation on Twitter, and pretty accurately captures the vibe and the weather of early 2023. The week in Greater ...
Open access notables The authors don't discuss it but folks who follow our GHG sources & sinks, flux, related geochemistry section will likely form some immediate connections from this paper and ask "what's this going to release?" Significant underestimation of peatland permafrost along the Labrador Sea coastline in northern Canada just published in The Cryosphere ...
Review: Lilith, by George MacDonald (1895)
There's the joke that the difference between the Victorians and our current era is that the Victorians were obsessed with Death and acted as though Sex didn't exist, whereas current modernity is the other way around. It's not actually true, of course, but it's still amusing. Today, I'm going ...
While the Beehive is silent, Seymour steals a march by railing against the Ardern team's law-and-o...
Buzz from the Beehive Sorry, folks (although – on second thoughts – you might regard this as good news). There has been no buzz from the Beehive since January 9, when Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall announced that a vaccine for people at risk of mpox (or monkeypox) will be ...
Gordon Campbell on the cult of political boldness
The next recession is shaping up as the most predicted event since the Second Coming. While we have to take it on faith that it will arrive someday, it is hard to say when it will happen, or how great/how bad it will be if and when it ever does. ...
Lindsay Mitchell: PM more self-delusional by the day
Lindsay Mitchell writes: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is heading into the 2023 election campaign stating: "Our record is growing Māori housing. Our record is growing Māori employment opportunities. Now our record is growing the Māori economy. I will happily campaign on our record." I really don't have a lot ...
Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Henry Cooke: Who are Labour's lost voters? Anna Whyte (Stuff): Green Party lay down priorities for 2023 – 'more influence over the next government' Anna Whyte (Stuff): Summer off politics: James Shaw wants to make it past chapter one Glenn McConnel (Stuff): Summer ...
Trump's toxic tail.
I was going to write about something else to start off the KP year but current events have intruded in the form of the craziness surrounding the selection of US House Speaker and the storming of the Brazilian seats of power (Congress, the Supreme Court and Presidential Palace) by (so-called ...
Garrick Tremain's view…
Climate Change: End pollution subsidies now!
Stuff reports that Tasman Steel - the latest name for what used to be NZ Steel - made a $340 million profit last year. The kicker? $117 million of that was from government pollution subsidies: New Zealand Steel's holding company Tasman Steel increased its profit by 153% to a ...
Science shows there's much amiss with Porirua harbour but Matauranga Māori is needed to get a mea...
The Porirua City Council – it seems – has no idea of how much mauri can be found in its harbour and waterways and how much more is needed before it can announce the mauri has been restored. But it is using Western science to measure things that might contribute ...
From Homepaddock: How StatsNZ contentiously counts Kiwis (or miscounts them?) for gender and ethni...
This article – posted today on Homepaddock – draws attention to contentious data-collecting issues raised by the way StatisticsNZ counts people for gender-defining and ethnicity purposes. The distorted results are influential in determining who gets how much funding and the number of Maori seats in Parliament… Suzanne Levy has spotted ...
Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Glenn McConnell (Stuff): Te Pāti Māori plans for a big 2023, but happy to stay cross bench Toby Manhire (Spinoff): In which we earnestly predict the date of the 2023 New Zealand general election Anna Whyte (Stuff): Summer off politics: Marama Davidson heads ...
We need to step up on road safety, not cut targets
Last year was terrible on Aotearoa's roads, with 379 people tragically and unnecessarily losing their lives, the highest number in a calendar year since 2009. Last year's toll also represents a grim and ongoing reversal: a massive 50% higher than the 253 lives lost in 2013, which was a historic ...
More wind, rain, flooding ahead for storm-battered California
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson and Jeff Masters A series of Pacific storms that's taken aim on California since late December is on track to continue into mid-January. Ferocious winds will slam much of the state on Wednesday and Thursday, accompanied by heavy rain likely ...
The Govt is ready to protect eligible Kiwis from monkeypox – but the vaccine can't be named or p...
Buzz from the Beehive Just three press statements have been issued from the Beehive this year, each in the name of Ayesha Verrall as Associate Minister of Health. The latest, headed Monkeypox vaccination available to eligible people from next week, tells us a vaccine for people at risk of mpox ...
How woke anti-racism fuels anti-Semitism
In this article from the website Radicalism of Fools Daniel Ben-Ami looks at some of the limitations of the new anti-racism movement One of the key tasks I have set myself this year is to examine the arguments around anti-Semitism in more depth. That is both those used by anti-Semites ...
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Gordon Campbell on Fiji's journey back to the future
For wealthier New Zealanders and Australians, Fiji is just one option among many for their tourism resort experiences, poolside. Obviously, the country amounts to a lot more to the people who actually live there. It also happens to be the Pacific's key diplomatic listening post, the home of the Pacific ...
Bryce Edwards' Political Roundup: MPs are set for a big post-election pay increase
DR BRYCE EDWARDS writes – One of the most popular moves Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ever made was the pay freeze her government imposed on politicians back in 2018. The freeze may have only been grudgingly agreed to by other MPs and parties, but it had universal public support. The ...
Prince Harry's Problem
What is it with Prince Harry?. Most of us would probably acknowledge that he has a legitimate cause for complaint at the way he and his wife have been treated by the British media. But there is more to it than that. Harry seems to harbour resentment against the media ...
Bryce Edwards: MPs set for a big post-election pay increase
One of the most popular moves Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ever made was the pay freeze her government imposed on politicians back in 2018. The freeze may have only been grudgingly agreed to by other MPs and parties, but it had universal public support. The pay freeze is due to ...
2023 – The Year Ahead
Welcome to 2023. After wrapping up 2022 before Christmas, here's a look at some of the things we can expect to see and will be watching for this year. Public Transport Public Transport Disruption Disruption to our PT network dominated much of last year, first with the driver shortages ...
2022 was a remarkable year for the climate. Here's what to expect in 2023
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The past year was full of milestones in the worlds of climate science and policy. The year 2022 saw one of the strongest La Niña events in the past half-century, second only to that in 2011. La Niña events draw cold water up to the ...
The Govt is keeping us safer in the water while protecting us from bad drugs – and the PM is talki...
Buzz from the Beehive Our lifestyles have not been unduly constrained by do-gooder cabinet ministers since Christmas Eve, a reflection – presumably – of the Beehive's inhabitants taking a holiday break. Hurrah. ...
This is what the right stands for now
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Q: Questions about HPC on SLURM I have a few questions about HPC. I have a code with serial and parallel sections. Parallel sections work on different chunks of memory and at some point they communicate with each other. For this I used MPI on our cluster. SLURM is the resource manager. Below is the specifications of a node in a cluster.
Specifications of a node:
Processor: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2690 (totally 16 cores 32 thread)
Memory : 256 GB 1600MHz ECC
Disk  : 2 x 600 GB 2.5" SAS (configured with raid 1)

Questions:
1) Do all cores on a node share the same memory (RAM)? If yes, do all of cores access memory at the same speed?
2) Consider a case:
--nodes = 1
--ntasks-per-node = 1
--cpus-per-task = 16 (all cores on a node)

If all cores share the same memory (depends on answer to question 1) will all cores be used or 15 of them sleep since OpenMP (for shared memory) is not used?
3) If required memory is less total memory of a node, isn't it much better to use a single node, use OpenMP to achieve core-level parallelism, and avoid time loss due to communication between nodes? That is, use this
--nodes = 1
--ntasks-per-core = 1

instead of this:
--nodes = 16
--ntasks-per-node = 1

Rest of the questions are related to statements in this link.

Use core allocation if your application is CPU bound; the more processors you can throw at it the better!

Does this statement mean that --ntasks-per-core is good when cores don't access RAM too often?

Use socket allocation if memory access is what bottlenecks your application's performance.  Since how much data can come in from memory is what limits the speed of the job, running more tasks on the same memory bus won't result in speed-up since all of those tasks are fighting over the path to memory.

I just don't get this. What I know is all sockets and cores on sockets share the same memory. This is why I don't get why --ntasks-per-socket option is available?

Use node allocation if some node-wide resource is what bottlenecks your application.  This is the case with applications that are relying heavily on access to disk or to networks resources.  Running multiple tasks per node won't result in a speed-up since all of those tasks are waiting for access to the same disk or network pipe.

Does this mean that, if memory required is more than total RAM of a single node then its better to use multiple nodes?

A: In order:

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*Yes, all cores share the same memory.  But not usually at the same speed.  Usually, each Processor (in your configuration, you have 2 processors or sockets) has memory that is 'closer' to it.  Usually the Linux kernel will attempt to allocate memory on nearby memory.  This is not something that a user application usually has to worry about.

*If it is a serial job, then yes, 15 cores will sit idle.  If your job uses MPI, then it can use the other cores on the same node.  Actually, MPI on the same node usually much faster than MPI stretched across multiple nodes.

*You can use OpenMP or MPI on a single node.  I'm not sure about the speed difference, but if you are already familiar with MPI, I would just stick with that.  The difference probably isn't that big.  But, the difference between running MPI on a single node vs. multiple nodes is going to be large.  Running MPI on a single node will be significantly faster than across multiple nodes.

Use core allocation if your application is CPU bound; the more processors you can throw at it the better!

This is likely targeting OpenMP or single node parallel jobs.

Use socket allocation if memory access is what bottlenecks your application's performance. Since how much data can come in from memory is what limits the speed of the job, running more tasks on the same memory bus won't result in speed-up since all of those tasks are fighting over the path to memory.

See the answer to 1.  Though it is the same memory, cores usually have separate bus's to memory.

Use node allocation if some node-wide resource is what bottlenecks your application. This is the case with applications that are relying heavily on access to disk or to networks resources. Running multiple tasks per node won't result in a speed-up since all of those tasks are waiting for access to the same disk or network pipe.

If you need more RAM than a single node can provide, then you have no choice but to divide your program and use MPI.

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ANALYSIS: The (non) rise and fall of Jetstar Hong Kong
By Greg Waldron2015-06-29T01:55:17+01:00
Hong Kong's Air Transport Licensing Authority's (ATLA) decision to deny Jetstar Hong Kong a licence to operate marks the end of the upstart's long battle to get airborne, and indicates that the barriers to entry in the Special Administrative Region are high indeed.
As poorly phrased laws go, Article 135 of Hong Kong's Basic Law is difficult to beat:
"Airlines incorporated and having their principal place of business in Hong Kong and businesses related to civil aviation functioning there prior to the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region may continue to operate."
Yet a law panel's interpretation of this article proved amply sufficient to kybosh Jetstar HK's hopes of bringing its low cost business model to Hong Kong.
In its 150-page decision, the five member panel reached back into a broad range of historical court cases in numerous countries to interpret the phrase "principle place of business," or PPB. In its original opposition to Jetstar HK, Cathay Pacific Airways had said that Jetstar's HK's overseas ownership contravened the 1980s-era Article 135.
Public relations counterattack
In a public relations competition waged from 2013, Jetstar HK took pains to highlight its local credentials. In January 2013 it hired "Hong Kong local" Howard Cheung as chief financial officer, and one month later another Hong Konger, Edward Lau, as chief executive.
There were more corporate gymnastics to come. In June 2013, sensing that more local credentials would be needed, 50% shareholders Qantas and China Eastern brought in Hong Kong firm Shun Tak Holdings. Each company was to hold one third in Jetstar HK. In 2014, Shun Tak's voting rights were bumped up to 51%, putting a Hong Kong entity firmly in control.
Cathay, for its part, consistently maintained that allowing Jetstar HK to open shop would hurt the local aviation industry and the local economy. Joining it were local unit Dragonair, as well as Hong Kong Express Airways and sister Hong Kong Airlines. Arguments against Jetstar HK revolved around slots, stands, and the number of qualified support staff available.
That Jetstar HK planned to have just 18 Airbus A320 aircraft by the end of 2015, a fraction of the combined fleets of the incumbent carriers, was not mentioned.
In its determination, the panel made clear that while in the areas of shareholder votes, operational control, and in day-to-day operations Jetstar HK would satisfy a Hong Kong PPB, it was concerned that other business decisions related to the carrier such as fleet planning, fares, and the network would be decided elsewhere.
"In the context of an airline, there are other special features that are important to its business which are not covered above or considered in the cases," it says. "The locale where the following decisions on operation are made is highly relevant to the PPB of an airline."
Only in the airline business
Of course, had Qantas and China Eastern wished to open another sort of business, such as hotel or fast food chain, their level of influence and control would have been no issue whatsoever. Hong Kong's economic development has depended on foreign direct investment: it is a certainty that the vast majority of investors desire a proportionate say in how their Hong Kong unit is run.
Qantas lashed out at the ATLA decision as "selling out" Hong Kong travellers. It and the other shareholders will review their options in regard to Jetstar HK.
Irrespective, the Hong Kong ruling marks a setback for Qantas as it seeks to expand its Jetstar franchise into new markets. It is also a missed opportunity for China Eastern, which would have gained exposure to the workings of a successful LCC operation. Hong Kong passengers will not get a fifth local carrier, which would have boosted cost competition in the city.
Perhaps the greatest legacy of the saga is how the dubiously-phrased Article 135, drafted three decades ago in a far different air traffic market, can be enlisted to retain the status quo in otherwise laissaiz-faire Hong Kong.
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Rachel was the most prolific leafleter last fall, and since the spring of 2009 she has placed booklets into the hands of over 145,000 people!
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This ecologist was told she could keep her natural garden. Here's why she's fighting city hall anyway
An ecology and urban planning professor is challenging Toronto's long grass and weed bylaw, even though the city gave her an exemption this summer to save her natural garden full of tall shrubs and trees, as well as butterflies and chipmunks.
City's long grass and weed bylaw is unconstitutional and outdated, professor argues
Angelina King · CBC News · Posted: Oct 07, 2020 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: October 7, 2020
Nina-Marie Lister, a professor of ecology and urban planning, says her natural garden is carefully curated and hosts an abundance of species. (Johnny C.Y. Lam)
An ecologist is challenging Toronto's long grass and weed bylaw, even though the city exempted her from having to cut down her natural garden — which is home to tall shrubs and trees, as well as butterflies and chipmunks.
Nina-Marie Lister, an ecology and urban planning professor at Ryerson University, says she never asked for an exemption and she rejects it. Instead, she and her lawyer are arguing that the bylaw itself is unconstitutional and outdated, saying it goes against the city's own pollinator protection and biodiversity strategies.
"[The current bylaw] really stands in the way of individual citizens on a small patch of yard trying to do the right thing at a time of biodiversity collapse and climate crisis," said Lister, who was also a consultant on the city's own biodiversity strategy.
The two are now drafting a replacement bylaw to present to the city this fall.
Lister and her family have been tending the garden at her home near Davenport Road and Christie Street for the past five years. It includes a front-yard meadow, a green roof and around 100 different species of plants, shrubs and trees, most of which are native to Ontario.
Nina-Marie Lister's natural garden is home to about 100 different species of trees, plants and shrubs. (Lorraine Johnson)
"In the work that I do, it would be very odd for me not to have a garden that was full of life, rich in biodiversity and frankly, one that gives us enormous benefit as a community," Lister said.
Worries grow following 'dramatic' drop in monarch butterfly population
Lister, who is also the director of Ryerson's Ecological Design Lab, says the garden holds storm water, controls runoff and provides habitat for various birds and at-risk insects like monarch butterflies. It's also been home to other creatures, including frogs, rabbits and chipmunks.
Plus, she says, it provides education and respite; passersby often stop and sit on logs that have been turned into makeshift seats, kids play in the flowers, and before the pandemic, school groups would come by.
'The whole thing is ridiculous,' lawyer says
Lister says she hopes people get a sense of joy when they walk past the garden, but instead some have complained to the city. A bylaw officer visited her home in August and said the garden violated the bylaw, which resulted in an order to mow it down.
The long grass and weed bylaw states grass, weeds and vegetation cannot be taller than 20 centimetres. A conviction can include forced mowing, at the landowner's cost, and a fine of up to $5,000. That doesn't include growth that's part of a natural garden or planted to produce ground cover. Exemptions can be granted for natural gardens.
Some of Lister's plants are between 90 and 120 centimetres.
About 600 square metres of Nina-Marie Lister's natural garden can be seen from the street. (John Lesavage/CBC)
Eventually, Lister was granted an exemption, but she says she didn't apply for one and an inspection was never done to grant it.
Lister told the city she rejects the exemption because she feels the bylaw puts a reverse onus on homeowners to seek exemptions and argue in favour of their gardens — something she says she's well-equipped to do but other homeowners may not be.
She hired environmental lawyer David Donnelly, who says "the whole thing is ridiculous."
"What kind of barbarian would mow buttercups, forget-me-nots and Lambsquarters?" he wrote in a nine-page letter to Mayor John Tory this week.
In the letter, Donnelly outlined his argument for why the bylaw is unconstitutional. He points out it's been previously challenged in court, successfully, in 1996.
"[The judge] found that the law is actually void, it's too vague and, in fact, it's unenforceable," he said in an interview with CBC Toronto.
Lister and Donnelly also argue the bylaw is hypocritical, given that the city's pollinator protection strategy says it's the city's obligation to "inspire residents to create pollinator habitat."
"The city has really been progressive about this on the one hand, but on the other hand where Municipal Licensing and Standards is concerned, there's a bylaw that actually stands in the way of those objectives," Lister said.
Nina-Marie Lister and her family have been tending their natural garden for five years. (Lorraine Johnson)
She and Donnelly say their model bylaw includes a way for the city to deal with noxious weeds and derelict properties but suggests solutions for the city and landowners to work together.
"Part of what this exercise is all about is to impose some common sense," Donnelly said.
Only in Toronto was a wild garden this big of a concern
The city did not have anyone from Municipal Licensing and Standards available for an interview on Tuesday. A spokesperson said the city is reviewing and will respond to a public letter urging reform of the bylaw, as well as the letter penned by Donnelly.
Nina-Marie Lister rejected an exemption from the city, saying the bylaw is unconstitutional and outdated. (John Lesavage/CBC)
"While we understand the objections raised in the letter, we also know many residents and councillors rely on the grass and weeds bylaw to make sure properties are properly maintained," Mayor John Tory's spokesperson Don Peat wrote in an email.
Lister invited Tory for a tea in her garden to discuss the issue further. Peat says the mayor appreciates the offer and will be following up on the invitation.
Angelina King
Angelina King is a reporter with CBC Toronto where she covers a wide range of stories. She has a particular interest in crime, legal and justice issues and human interest stories. She previously reported on national and international news. Angelina got her start in her home city of Saskatoon where she spent much of her time covering the courts. You can contact her at angelina.king@cbc.ca or @angelinaaking


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