About the event
Join us to celebrate the launch of Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lyndy McIntyre, published by Otago University Press.
All welcome!
Power to Win by Lyndy McIntyre
About the author:
Lyndy McIntyre grew up in the 50s and 60s in a time of relative prosperity in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the 70s she became increasingly active in left/progressive issues and her community. Lyndy learnt about unions on the job as a union delegate in the printing industry through the 1980s. In 1990 she started a 30-year working life in unions, with a brief stint as a parliamentary press secretary.
In 2007 she was elected to Kāpiti Coast District Council. She served one term and decided that union work was more worthwhile. In 2015, she became one of two paid community organisers in Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand.
In 2020, she retired from her community organising role and began to write this story of the movement.
Thursday July 4th, 6pm
In-store at Unity Books Wellington
Book Launch of Power to Win by Lyndy McIntyre. All welcome!
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