Bargain deals can have costly results. "I reckon it's high time consumers - especially those who can afford it - stepped up to the plate," writes Dita De Boni.

About 900 F & P Healthcare production, maintenance and distribution workers at the company's Highbrook plant have given 14 days notice of strike action over a pay dispute.

The country's biggest union has accused drilling companies of putting workers' lives at risk by cutting corners to save money.

Labour MP Damien O'Connor is this morning defending his comments attacking the Labour party's list as a 'gaggle of gays and self-serving unionists'. A political commentator and a unionist on the list give their reactions.

The Labour Party's list has been labelled 'a gaggle of gays and self-serving unionists' by one of their own MPs.

The public should have a say on whether public holidays that fall on the weekend should be "mondayised", a Labour MP says.

The Labour Party will try to force the Government's hand to 'Mondayise' Anzac Day and Waitangi Day if they fall on a weekend by introducing a member's bill to make the change.

The EPMU says sealing the Pike River mine would prevent investigators from learning what really happened.

Silver Ferns Farms has hit back at complaints that workers at its Te Aroha plant had their pay deducted for observing a two-minute silence to remember the Pike River miners.

Staff at a North Island freezing works had their pay cut for the official two-minute silence to remember the 29 miners killed in the Pike River mine.

The majority of miners remaining at Pike River Coal mine look set to lose their jobs, as officials today told workers they were going to proceed with redundancies three weeks after a series of explosions killed 29 workers inside the mine.

Phil Goff has made it clear that it is not up to MP George Hawkins to decide who will replace him in his Manurewa seat.

MP George Hawkins is threatening to force a byelection if the party selects a replacement Manurewa candidate he dislikes.