Sounds like NZ is in need of a prolonged general strike, until their government stops fucking with the most efficient tool of the workers against capitalists.

WHAT???
NEW ZEALAND???
That cute little place that stresses over eating eggs from chickens being in cages, THAT New Zealand is copying the shithole country called the U S of the fucking A?
Why the fuck?
Throw some seasonal workers at them to calm their titties.

All in the same vein as the other authoritarian shit being put up by governments worldwide.

The jig’s up. Our owners are tired of playing pretend, and the veneer has come off the whole thing. No more pretending that hard work will get you somewhere. No more “if you’re with us, you can rise in the ranks”. Just plain ol’ feudalism, as if it had never left.

the army helping labour during a crisis is acceptable.

need man power to quickly build up a supply of gas masks during a pandemic? make sense.

the army being used to literally go to war with workers for their rights? fuck no.

Just to clarify: the military will only be enabled to replace striking civilians employed by the defence force. Im still against this, but it seems like a fair few people think they will be replacing striking civilians nationwide. This is not the case.

An army of scabs

She said the authorisation was something that was not taken lightly, but “when required, it should be practical in its application”.

If authorisation was granted under the new regime, it would be informed by operational and legal advice from NZDF, Collins said.

This would have been helpful about 80 years ago.

https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_guadalcanal.html

Operation Watchtower: The Battle for Guadalcanal (August 1942-February 1943)

For Vandegrift, the news was far from welcome as he had not expected to go into action until sometime early in the new year and his division was spread out between Wellington and the United States, with part of it on garrison duty in Samoa. In just under a month he would have to make operational and logistical plans, unload his ships and reload them for combat, sail to the Fiji Islands to conduct a rehearsal and then sail to the Solomon Islands. Reconfiguring the division’s supplies would have to be done in New Zealand’s Aotoa Quay, a confined area that could only take five ships at a time. To make matters worse, the dock workers went on strike so that the Marines had to do the work themselves and the rains came which were driven by a cold persistent wind.

Was really not a good time for New Zealand to have its logistics shut down. That also wound up causing some of the Marines’ supplies to be ruined, which didn’t help the later supply-constrained situation on Guadalcanal.

I suppose the RNZN need something to do with half their ships (4) laid up. (They have 8 ships total.)

This is what the military is for! Hooyah!