Lately for Tuesday 23 August 2022

10:15 Industrial Action 

For the first time in more than 25 years employees at two Auckland packaging companies will take industrial action asking for better pay and conditions. 

More than 100 workers from Visy Board New Zealand in Wiri and Charta Packaging will start the 24 hour strike at 3.30am tomorrow morning.  

They are wanting at least a ten percent increase on their regular pay in a one-year deal.

10:25 Supercity Wellington?

It's nearly 12 years since Auckland became a super city, in November 2010.

Wellington never followed suit  despite efforts over the years to merge the region's nine councils into a single entity of its own.

Now, however, the idea of a Wellington super city is back on the table courtesy of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce.

Chief executive Simon Arcus joins Lately.

10:30 Quiet Quitting, What is it?

We've had the Great Resignation and now we're on to the Quiet Quitting.

Quiet quitting is the trend of dialing back your effort at work, usually unpaid overtime, in an effort to restore a better work life balance.

It's gaining in popularity among younger workers who are fighting to reimagine the meaning of work and the work place.

Jarrod Haar is a  professor of human resource management at  AUT University and he's with us to explain the art of the quiet quitter.

10:45 Is the Gorge open? 

It's a frequently asked question up in the far north of the country and now one young entrepreneur has come up with a way to memorialise it on a t shirt

Kaitaia-based ACA Clothing is now printing a crew-neck T-shirt sporting with the question "Is the gorge open?" emblazoned across the front.

The question refers to the Mangamuka-Gorge-Road which is frequently closed. 

Marley Maheno, who owns ACA Clothing, and designed the t shirt talks to us about the slogan.