“Collins’ Divide and Conquer: How National’s Union-Busting Playbook Targets Māori Solidarity” - 20 October 2025

Tēnā koutou katoa. Ko Ivor Jones ahau, ko Te Māori Green Lantern. E tiaki ana ahau i te pono, ka whakatōhea nei i nga korero parau, i te kaikiri ma, i te tautohe tangata, me te neoliberalism mai i te taha katau.

The mask has slipped. Public Service Minister Judith Collins has launched a coordinated attack on New Zealand’s largest strike in decades, revealing the true face of this coalition government’s anti-worker, anti-Māori agenda. Collins’ so-called “open letter to the people of New Zealand” is nothing more than a desperate attempt to deflect from her government’s systematic destruction of workers’ rights and public services that Māori and working-class families depend on.

Judith Collins manipulating union workers as a corporate puppet master

Background: Understanding the Assault on Tino Rangatiratanga and Workers’ Rights

This government’s attacks didn’t begin with Collins’ inflammatory letter. Since taking power in December 2023, the National-ACT-NZ First coalition has waged systematic warfare against both Te Tiriti o Waitangi and workers’ rights. The connections are deliberate and devastating - when you undermine Indigenous sovereignty, you simultaneously weaken the collective power that protects all working people.

This coalition has eliminated over 10,000 public sector jobs, disproportionately affecting Māori who are overrepresented in public service roles that support our communities. They’ve repealed Fair Pay Agreements, stripped $12.8 billion from pay equity settlements, and legalized pay deductions for partial strikes. Each measure deliberately weakens the collective power that both Māori and non-Māori workers need to resist exploitation.

The timing is no coincidence. As Sandra Grey, the newly elected president of the Council of Trade Unions, noted, “Life is too hard for working people and their families right now. Children are going hungry. People are living in their cars.” This manufactured crisis serves the neoliberal agenda perfectly - desperate workers are easier to control.

Coalition Government’s Anti-Union Policy Timeline 2023-2025

The Heart of the Issue: Collins’ Dirty Politics and Manufactured Division

Collins’ latest attack represents a new low in political manipulation. Her claim that the Post Primary Teachers’ Association prioritized Palestine over students in agenda discussions is a calculated lie designed to weaponize racism and divide communities.

PPTA president Chris Abercrombie exposed Collins’ deception immediately. The government’s own officials had specifically requested agenda items that excluded pay and working conditions from discussion. Palestine was one of four topics the union proposed - alongside NCEA changes, AI marking, and curriculum updates. The placement was alphabetical, not prioritized.

But Collins knew this. Her deliberate misrepresentation serves multiple white supremacist functions: it portrays teachers as unpatriotic and politically motivated, it weaponizes anti-Palestinian sentiment to divide progressive forces, and it deflects from the government’s own refusal to negotiate in good faith. This is classic divide-and-conquer tactics straight from the neoliberal playbook.

The deeper connection Collins desperately wants to hide is how solidarity with Palestine connects to solidarity with Māori. Both Palestinian and Māori peoples face settler colonial occupation, both struggle for self-determination, and both resist attempts to erase their connection to whenua. When teachers express solidarity with Palestinian educators under bombardment, they’re practicing the same aroha and tautoko that strengthens resistance to colonization everywhere.

Collins’ Manufactured Crisis: Exposing the Neoliberal Propaganda Machine

Collins’ performance as the concerned minister worried about patients and students is pure theater. This is the same government that has spent over $80 million on redundancy payments while claiming poverty when workers ask for inflation-adjusted wages.

The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists has repeatedly exposed the government’s bad faith. Health workers are offered pay increases of just 1.16% annually - a massive real-terms pay cut - while Health NZ spends upwards of $200 million annually on locum staff because permanent positions remain unfilled.

The manufactured crisis becomes clearer when examining the government’s priorities. While claiming there’s no money for teachers and healthcare workers, they’ve handed $2.9 billion in tax breaks to property investors. They’ve increased board directors’ pay by 80% while offering workers below-inflation increases.

Collins’ false concern for patients ignores a crucial reality: patients miss out on care every single day due to chronic understaffing, not because of occasional strike action. The government’s refusal to properly fund public healthcare creates far more disruption than workers exercising their democratic right to withdraw labor.

Breakdown of 100,000 Workers in October 23, 2025 Mega Strike

The White Supremacist Logic of Anti-Union PoliticsThe Colonial Continuity: From Land Theft to Wage Theft

Collins’ attacks on striking workers follow a pattern established during the colonial invasion of Aotearoa. Just as settlers used divide-and-rule tactics to pit different iwi against each other, the modern neoliberal state attempts to divide Māori workers from non-Māori workers, private sector from public sector, striking workers from the general public.

The coalition’s systematic union-busting serves the same colonial function as the Native Land Court - breaking down collective ownership and decision-making structures that resist capitalist exploitation. When Fair Pay Agreements are repealed, when collective bargaining rights are threatened, when pay equity is stripped away, the result is the same: individual workers become easier to exploit, just as individual Māori land owners were easier to dispossess.

The Palestine Connection: International Solidarity as Indigenous Resistance

Collins’ weaponization of the Palestine agenda item reveals deep anxiety about growing connections between Indigenous liberation movements worldwide. The coalition government supports Israeli apartheid because they recognize the threat that successful Indigenous resistance poses to settler colonial projects everywhere.

When Māori express solidarity with Palestine, when teachers discuss the destruction of schools in Gaza, when unionists connect local struggles to global liberation movements, they’re building exactly the kind of international Indigenous solidarity that threatens white supremacist power structures. This is why Collins frantically attempts to portray such solidarity as treasonous or inappropriate.

The government’s support for Israeli war crimes while attacking domestic solidarity shows whose interests they truly serve. Just as they facilitate the destruction of Palestinian schools and hospitals while cutting funding for New Zealand’s public services, they serve the same neoliberal empire that profits from violence and exploitation both locally and internationally.

Economic Terrorism: How Austerity Targets Māori Communities

The coalition’s $1.5 billion in annual public service cuts disproportionately harm Māori communities who rely on public services and public sector employment. This isn’t accidental - it’s systematic economic terrorism designed to force Māori back into poverty and dependence.

When Collins claims the government “values all public sector employees” while simultaneously eliminating their jobs and suppressing their wages, she’s perpetrating the same gaslighting that characterized the colonial “civilizing mission.” The violence is dressed up as concern, the theft as fiscal responsibility, the racism as pragmatism.

The $12.8 billion stolen from pay equity settlements directly targets women workers, many of whom are Māori women in care work, teaching, and health roles. This represents one of the largest thefts from working women in New Zealand history, justified through neoliberal rhetoric about “fiscal responsibility” while billions flow to property investors and foreign corporations.

Cumulative Public Sector Job Cuts Under Coalition Government 2023-2025

The False Scarcity Narrative: Exposing Neoliberal Lies

Collins’ claim that “the country is simply not earning enough to meet all these calls” for increased spending is demonstrably false. New Zealand’s ultra-wealthy have seen their wealth increase dramatically while workers’ living standards decline. The money exists - it’s simply being redistributed upward.

The coalition finds billions for tax cuts, military spending, and corporate subsidies, but claims poverty when workers ask for living wages. This selective scarcity reveals the class interests being served. When property investors get $2.9 billion in tax breaks while teachers can’t get inflation-adjusted pay increases, the priorities are crystal clear.

The manufactured crisis narrative also serves another colonial function - portraying Māori and working-class demands for justice as unreasonable and threatening to “stability.” This echoes exactly the rhetoric used to justify the suppression of Māori resistance throughout colonial history.

The Network of Elite PowerThe Property Class Alliance

Collins’ husband David Wong-Tung is a property developer, connecting her directly to the property investment class that benefits massively from the coalition’s policies. The restoration of interest deductibility for rental properties represents a direct wealth transfer from working renters to property-owning elites like Collins’ own family.

This personal enrichment while attacking workers’ rights exposes the fundamental hypocrisy of neoliberal politics. The same politicians who claim there’s no money for pay increases somehow find billions for policies that directly benefit their own class interests.

The Corporate Media Amplification

Collins’ attack letter received massive coverage across corporate media outlets, with many failing to provide adequate context about the union’s actual agenda or the government’s negotiating behavior. This demonstrates how corporate media amplifies government propaganda while minimizing workers’ legitimate grievances.

The timing coordination between Collins’ letter release and media coverage suggests sophisticated communications strategy designed to maximize impact during the strike lead-up. This kind of political warfare requires resources and media relationships that only serve ruling class interests.

The International Neoliberal Network

The coalition’s union-busting tactics mirror those being implemented by far-right governments globally, from Trump’s attacks on federal worker unions to European austerity programs that target public sector workers. These aren’t isolated national policies but coordinated international efforts to break working-class power.

The sharing of union-busting strategies, the coordination of austerity timing, and the similar rhetoric used across different countries reveals the global nature of this assault. New Zealand’s coalition government isn’t innovating - they’re implementing a proven international playbook for destroying worker power.

New Zealand workers united in solidarity during the 2025 mega strike

Implications: The Broader Attack on Democracy and Tino RangatiratangaAuthoritarian Escalation

Collins’ recent hints about restricting public sector collective bargaining rights represent a dramatic escalation toward authoritarianism. When governments attack the fundamental right to organize and strike, they’re moving toward the kind of authoritarian control that characterizes fascist regimes.

This escalation is particularly dangerous for Māori communities, who have historically relied on collective organization and protest to resist colonial oppression. The same laws that restrict union organizing can be used to suppress iwi resistance, hikoi, and other forms of Indigenous collective action.

The Intersection of Anti-Māori and Anti-Worker Politics

The coalition’s simultaneous attacks on Te Tiriti and workers’ rights aren’t coincidental - they serve the same function of breaking down collective resistance to capitalist exploitation. The Treaty Principles Bill aims to undermine Māori collective rights just as employment law changes aim to undermine workers’ collective rights.

Both forms of attack serve white supremacist capitalism by individualizing relationships that were previously collective. Just as the Treaty Principles Bill seeks to reduce Māori to individual “New Zealanders” with no special collective rights, union-busting seeks to reduce workers to individual contractors with no collective power.

The Climate Connection

The coalition’s attacks on unions and public services occur within the context of accelerating climate breakdown. Public sector workers in health, education, and emergency services will be crucial for climate adaptation, yet the government systematically undermines these sectors.

The failure to properly fund public services while subsidizing fossil fuel industries shows how neoliberal priorities actively worsen both social and environmental crises. Māori communities, who face disproportionate climate impacts while maintaining traditional ecological knowledge, need strong public services and collective organizing rights to build resilience.

Christopher Luxon representing neoliberal oppression of workers

The Path Forward - Collective Resistance and Tino Rangatiratanga

Collins’ desperate attacks reveal a government losing control of the narrative. The October 23 mega strike represents the largest worker mobilization in decades, demonstrating that working people refuse to accept poverty wages and degraded public services while elites enrich themselves.

The path forward requires connecting these struggles explicitly. Māori liberation and workers’ liberation are not separate struggles - they’re different fronts in the same war against white supremacist capitalism. When teachers express solidarity with Palestine, when health workers demand living wages, when public sector workers resist job cuts that disproportionately harm Māori communities, they’re all resisting the same system of exploitation.

Collins’ government serves property developers, fossil fuel companies, and international capital. They fear nothing more than the collective power of Indigenous peoples and working people united in resistance. The mega strike is just the beginning - it must connect to broader movements for climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and international solidarity.

The aroha and manaakitanga that sustain our communities are the same values that build strong unions and effective resistance movements. As our ancestors understood, collective action based on shared values is the only force strong enough to overcome systemic oppression.

Kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui. The struggle continues, and victory belongs to those who stand together.

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