Labour Day is celebrated all over the world, usually on May 1st. New Zealand's Labour Day is celebrated in the third week of October. This weekend is NZ's Labour Day weekend and Monday is a public holiday. It commemorates a day in 1840 when carpenter Samuel Parnell won a world-leading eight-hour day for workers in the Wellington settlement: “It must be on these terms or none at all!” he said.
To see videos on NZ's labour history -- and hundreds of videos on other topics -- visit the free NZOnScreen website. For a centre-left interpretation of events in NZ, visit Scoop. It is sometimes refreshing to see the world differently than the usually right-wing media. For a damning video on how TV1 and TV3 twist the news to improve their ratings, link to this Scoop story. Not relevant to Fiji? Don't believe it. Everything is interconnected, some things more than others.
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One day while New Zealanders celebrate Labour Day, the Pacific people will have to celebrate Slavery Day. That's when the full effect of PACER Plus will have taken root on the Pacific economies.
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