Job security
Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :The speed of change in the economy under the Labour go...
Date: 1987
From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]
Reference: B-136-667
Description: Shows Prime Minister, David Lange driving a small car with Deputy Prime Minister, Geoffrey Palmer, in the passenger seat. The car is out of control and its wheels are coming off. On the roof of the car are large packages called 'job security', Corporisation', 'Unemployment' and 'Ecomomic policy'. On two of the wheels are the words 'F.O.L support' and 'C.S.U. support'. A wheel which has flown off has the words 'West Coast Miners' on it. Refers to problems in the speed of economic change under the Lange government in 1987. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: 1 A3 photocopy Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.
Climate report. Future bleak. "Okay I splurged, but we don't have to worry about job se...
Date: 2007
From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
Reference: DCDL-0003199
Description: A ghoul on a motorbike confesses to three fellow ghouls named 'Disease', 'Famine' and 'Pestilence' who are riding horses, that he has splurged on the bike because they don't have to worry about job security because climate change indicates a bleak future. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Telecom Manila Call Centre. "You'll learn how to speak their lingo, you'll take a virtu...
Date: 2009
From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
Reference: DCDL-0010390
Description: Shows a Telecom call centre in Manila. The boss appears at the door and tells the staff that after learning the lingo and having a virtual tour of New Zealand they will be indistinguishable from a kiwi except that they will have job security. Refers to Telecom's setting up of call centres in Manila in spite of the desire of the government to retain jobs in New Zealand during the recession. Colour version of DCDL-0010389 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Telecom Manila Call Centre. "You'll learn how to speak their lingo, you'll take a virtu...
Date: 2009
From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
Reference: DCDL-0010389
Description: Shows a Telecom call centre in Manila. The boss appears at the door and tells the staff that after learning the lingo and having a virtual tour of New Zealand they will be indistinguishable from a kiwi except that they will have job security. Refers to Telecom's setting up of call centres in Manila in spite of the desire of the government to retain jobs in New Zealand during the recession. B&W version of DCDL-0010390 Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
"Is my job safe from the razor gang?" "Yes, we wouldn't save much by axing your job. Ar...
Date: 2005
From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0000329
Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The minister's secretary hopes that his job will be safe from the razor gang and is somewhat abashed when the minister tells him that he should consider himself lucky that he is paid so little because his job isn't worth getting rid of. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Job Save Machine. 9 Day Fortnight. Private Companies. Public Service. Employment. 15 Ma...
Date: 2009
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0010682
Description: The 'employment' ship is sinking so Prime Minister, John Key, comes to the rescue in his 'Job Save Machine'. He tosses out of a helicopter several life rafts that represent the idea of the '9 day fortnight [for] private companies'. A blow-up animal is dropped for the public service. Refers to the main idea that came out of the government's 'Job Summit' held in February 2009. The 'Job Summit' was intended to find ways of keeping people in jobs during the economic recession. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Kiwi rail workers - Wooooohooooo. 11 July 2012
Date: 2012
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
By: Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)
Reference: DCDL-0022331
Description: A KiwiRail worker is tied up and laid across the railway tracks. From the distance comes the whistle of an approaching train. In July 2012 KiwiRail announced that to reduce their expenditure they would cut 220 jobs from their infrastucture and engineering staff. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Taxes Low Alt [Alternative] Version
Date: October 2022
From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly
By: Slane, Christopher, 1957-; Listener (Periodical)
Reference: DCDL-0041867
Description: Digital cartoon by Chris Slane on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Description from cartoonist reads: "Cartoon depicts a huge pile of large rocks balanced precariously on top of each other in the style of Road Runner cartoons each labelled 'Pandemic' '5 million kiwis' 'Low wage overseas workforce' 'Low Govt debt' all resting on top of a overloaded 'Hospitals' with queues of people attempting to gain admission to overstrained Emergency Wards while Leader of the National Party Christopher Luxon overlooking the scene proclaims "That's how you keep taxes low"." Description taken from cartoonist's website on 18 January 2023: https://www.slanecartoon.com/-/galleries/political-cartoons/political-cartoons-2022. Title taken from cartoonist's website. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).