Wages - Law and legislation

From: Scales, Sid, 1916-2003 :[Political cartoons featuring Robert Muldoon and the Muldoon era. Published in the Otago Daily Times, 1977]

Reference: A-319-053

Description: Comments on recent news items, including a meeting between the unions and employers while multiple faces of Robert Muldoon look on; also comments on the wet holiday season, and a strike by seamen on the Stewart Island Ferry Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Sid Scales [Scales caricature has grown webbed feet and splashes in the rain] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 278 x 380 mm Provenance: Donated by Sid Scales in 1998

From: Scales, Sid, 1916-2003 :[Political cartoons featuring Robert Muldoon and the Muldoon era. Published in the Otago Daily Times, 1977]

Reference: A-319-041

Description: Comments on recent news items, including the wet Summer holiday season, changes in the road rules, and the F.O.L. revising wage demands to offset inflation Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Sid Scales Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon on paper, 280 x 380 mm Provenance: Donated by Sid Scales in 1998

Date: 1987

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-136-647

Description: Shows a group of policemen trying to force a group of lawyers to make a law change that will ensure that future wage hearings will take account of government budgetary action. The policemen are twisting the arms of the lawyers behind their backs while a senior poliman reads out the law change the government wants. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 215 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1988

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-136-806

Description: As two men walk along the street they see an MP they know whose clothes are in rags. One of the men comments that Prime Minister, David Lange, reckons that ordinary MPs are poorly paid in New Zealand and that must account for the poor fellow's rags. The other man says that the MP has been explaining why he should have a pay rise to the unemployed in his electorate . Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon on paper, 320 x 485 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2013

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024121

Description: Below caricatures of leading politicians complaining about their pay is the punchline 'It would be increased tenfold tomorrow!' Refers to the contrast between the minimal increase in the minimum wage granted by the Minimum Wage Order of 2013 under the Act and the large increase granted to politicans by the Higher Salaries Commission. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024673

Description: A poverty-stricken family of three learns that the minimum wage will be raised by 25 cents per hour. Saving the extra ten dollars a week will be enough for them to afford a one-way ticket to Australia, where wages are higher. In February 2013 the minimum wage was raised by 25 cents per hour. The raise was not enough to counter the cost of living rises. Increasingly, the temptation to leave for Australia to earn a living wage beckoned. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1984

From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]

By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024869

Description: Shows a man (Unions) on a steam roller (Rolling Strikes) which has flattened David Lange (Labour Party image). Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'The union assault on the wage freeze and regulations was damaging Labour just as David Lange began to make his presence felt'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0020292

Description: Cartoon shows four well-fed men, identified as Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) drinking champagne. One, holding a newspaper with headlines reading 'Minimum wage raised 50 cents an hour', remarks that with 'snivelling malcontents' having got a wage increase, as CEOs they also needed an increase. In February 2012, the minimum wage was to be raised by 50 cents an hour, less than had been hoped for, but which was criticised by other classes of society. At the same time, excessive pay increases were recorded by already well-paid and under-performing heads of corporations, the civil service and local bodies. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2012

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0023201

Description: Shows a teenager with his foot being slammed in the door of the Acme Employer Ltd office, by a large man. The teenager shouts, `Ow! Ow! Ten dollars is fine!' Refers to the government's plan to re-introduce a a youth pay rate which will see 16-to-19-year-olds making a minimum $10.80 per hour, or 80 percent of the adult minimum wage, which is currently $13.50 per hour. (Stuff.co.nz, 9 Oct 2012) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).