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A new survey released by Hudson today is good news for employees – for many New Zealand companies, financial rewards are the most popular and effective way to hold on to good staff. More >>
Striking coal miners at Solid Energy’s Spring Creek and Terrace mines have met this afternoon and voted to not return to work until further notice. The miners walked off the job on Friday and stayed away over the weekend and Monday after Solid Energy ... More >>
Kindergarten teachers' negotiators and the Ministry of Education and Kindergarten Associations have reached a settlement on kindergarten teachers' terms and conditions, the education union NZEI Te Riu Roa says. More >>
National Party Labour and Industrial Relations spokeswoman Kate Wilkinson says the Government was warned in 2002 that there were serious gaps in the way it collected data on workplace deaths, but did nothing. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has applied to the Employment Relations Authority asking for an injunction against Air Nelson over its continued use of illegal strikebreaking labour. More >>
Due to a stop-work meeting by most of Stagecoach Auckland’s drivers this Thursday 28 June, Stagecoach regrets to advise there will be no Stagecoach or Link bus services between 9.00am and 1.30pm. More >>
The Nelson Marlborough DHB has been formally notified that there will be two 2-hour stopwork meeting on Wednesday 1 August commencing at 9am in Nelson and Thursday 2 August commencing at 10am in Blenheim. More >>
Workers at Independent Liquor in Papakura will take strike action from 5am to 7am tomorrow morning in support of claims for a living wage. The company has offered a 2% pay increase while the rate of inflation alone is over 3%. The company says ... More >>
“The date of the senior doctor stopwork meeting in the MidCentral District Health Board has been confirmed as part of the unprecedented national stopwork meetings over the impasse in the national collective agreement negotiations with the 21 DHBs,” ... More >>
The successful prosecution of the owners of New Plymouth's PaknSave supermarket highlights the potential dangers of carbon monoxide to workers in poorly ventilated workplaces, says the Department of Labour. More >>
Which company will go away with a red face this year? Cleaners across New Zealand will be handing out their annual Golden Toilet Brush Award this Friday, June 15, as part of global rallies for International Justice for Cleaners Day. More >>
The suit filed by fifteen New Zealand actors over money possibly owed them in a contract dispute involving merchandising has nothing at all to do with New Line's famous dispute with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson according to the actor who instigated ... More >>
The Maritime Union says cash bounties being offered for missing overseas fishing crew members is extremely dangerous and is of dubious legality. More >>
The announcement that senior doctors would be holding unprecedented stopwork meetings next month means that strike action has now been either taken or threatened by almost everyone in the health system from cleaners to senior doctors, says New Zealand First ... More >>
Hussein: Let me tell you the opinion of the people. Swanson: Yes, please. Hussein: It is as simple as this sentence: America came for the oil. They are all excuses. It was possible they could have removed Saddam Hussein in the first war, but he actually ... More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will be appealing the Employment Relations Authority’s decision not to grant an injunction against Air New Zealand-owned Link provider Air Nelson’s strikebreaking activities. More >>
ARE people working more or less hours, and where? What is the status of the 40-hour week? In what jobs, and where, do people work longer or shorter hours? Who works longer hours, women or men, and why? More >>
IN a statement to the Committee on the Fishing Sector at the 96th session of the International Labour Conference (ILC), organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has stressed ... More >>
THE International Labour Organisation (ILO) is currently working out a new fishing convention, a labour rights activist closed to the fishing industry, told our correspondent in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, one of Nigeria's main oil and gas-producing ... More >>
Last minute pay offer lifts hospital lockout Last minute negotiations between the Service and Food Workers Union and District Health Board representatives have resulted in the lifting of industrial action across the nation's public hospitals. More >>
Facilities services company ISS New Zealand welcomes the withdrawal of strike notices by the Services and Food Workers Union (SFWU) following progress in negotiations with District Health Boards. More >>
The public is completely sick of never-ending industrial disputes in the country's hospitals, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
News of the pending lockout of 2000 public hospital cleaners, orderlies and kitchen staff shows the level of industrial disarray in the health sector, says National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
A report from the International Labour Office (ILO) wired to our correspondent on Thursday, says there are still mounting inequalities in income and opportunities and significant and persistent forms of workplace discrimination. More >>
Prison unit managers have voted to call off industrial action that was due to begin on Thursday next week.(June 7) More >>
Supermarket distribution workers have walked out in support of a Filipino trade unionist who had just learnt that his life or freedom is at risk for protesting against the Filipino President in New Zealand, says the National Distribution Union (NDU). More >>
Service and Food Workers Union delegates have agreed to lift the first two days of a nationwide strike affecting 2500 hospital orderlies, cleaners and kitchen staff. The action was scheduled to start Thursday 31 May. More >>
Negotiations today between the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Air Nelson have concluded without a settlement. The negotiations were scheduled for one day only and took place as the EPMU continues its month-long strike action against ... More >>
Due to strike action by members of the Service and Food Workers and Medical Laboratory Workers unions services at Hawke’s Bay and Wairoa Hospitals will be disrupted. More >>
Waikato District Health Board has refuted a suggestion it intends having doctors and nurses emptying rubbish and serving meals if food and service and food workers go on strike next week. More >>
Business News: Michelle King writes businesses will not benefit from the 2007 budget as the Government gives with one hand and takes with the other. The Government was praised for the business tax reductions outlined in the budget. However the employer ... More >>
The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things. Recently, in many ... More >>
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) has received notices of intended strike action by members of the Service and Food Workers’ Union (SFWU). To date the DHB has received notices covering five 24 hour periods from 12.00am Friday 1 June to ... More >>
The’ Turn the Tide’ campaign is calling on the Kapiti Mayor and Councillors to take a lead in fighting proposals to privatise the District Nursing service. The campaign was launched this month by Councillor Alan Tristram and councillor candidate ... More >>
The Green Party says the decision by West Coast District Health Board and Counties-Manakau DHB to suspend health workers striking over the lab workers' dispute is punitive, and will only entrench positions on both sides of this rapidly escalating conflict ... More >>
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Air New Zealand Link company Air Nelson will be taking strike action from one minute past midnight on Thursday after rejecting the company’s latest pay offer. More >>
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members have taken the stage at the Qantas Media Awards to protest plans by their employer, APN, to outsource its subediting to Australian company PageMasters. More >>
The mediation between the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Air Nelson over their pay dispute has broken down. More >>
“It is more than a bit rich for business interests and the National party to moan about a 4% employer superannuation contribution when the government are fronting up with the majority of the money for it,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
A delegation of Maritime Union members will go onboard the vessel Buzzard Bay at the Port of Tauranga today to deliver a message to the captain about practices aboard the ship. More >>
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Aviation and Marine Engineers Association members will be the first aviation workers in the world to take part in today’s aviation industry international day of protest. More >>
The Minister of Health’s casual attitude to strikes in the health system can be partly explained by the fact that he has no real idea of what they cost or how many patients are affected says New Zealand First’s health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Public Service Association are continuing mediation with TVNZ today. The mediation concerns the public broadcaster’s plan to make 58 news and current affairs staff redundant and is scheduled for today ... More >>
Last night in television news reports, the Union representative Bill Clarke claimed there had been no communication from Subway since the police charged Jacqueline Lang with theft. This is an unfounded and untrue statement. More >>
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Air Nelson today reassured customers that it is putting contingency plans in place to minimise the impact of a proposed strike by members of the EPMU. General Manager John Hambleton said the proposed strike from May 24 had been well signalled by the ... More >>
Over 30 bloggers and many blog readers from all corners of the politial spectrum have signed a petition to boycott Subway stores nationwide, indicating that support for Jackie Lang's fight against Subway is widespread. More >>
Two high-ranking Los Angeles Police Department commanders were reassigned Monday for their role in overseeing the violent police response to last week's MacArthur Park immigration rally. More >>
The matter between Subway, George Street Dunedin and Jacqueline Lang is confidential between employer and employee. Because of this, the Employment Relations Service together with the Employment Relations Authority and the Employment Court are the ... More >>
Workers Charter, a network of left wing trade unionists and activists, are calling for a protest this Saturday for Jackie Lang, a worker sacked for sharing a $4 cup of Coca-Cola. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has served notice of strike action on Air New Zealand’s biggest Link company, Air Nelson. The action will begin at midnight on the 24th of May and comes after nine days of talks, including four days ... More >>
“Senior doctors are now organising unprecedented national stopwork meetings in response to the protracted impasse in our national collective agreement negotiations,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, ... More >>
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation are asking Kiwis to draw on their traditional sense of Fair Play and support the campaign for better working conditions and safer hospitals. More >>
Young Labour have called on the country's young people to boycott Subway restaurants nationwide after management in a Dunedin store fired a vulnerable worker over a $4 drink which the worker shared with a distressed friend. More >>
Brussels, 2 May 2007 (ITUC OnLine): Once again, annual May Day celebrations in several countries have been met with repression and intimidation by the authorities. Rallies for workers’ rights in Iran, Turkey and Macao were subjected to violent reactions ... More >>
The Autonomous Workers Union is launching an appeal to pay legal fees for ex-Subway worker Jackie Lang who has been fired and faces criminal prosecution for sharing her free drink while consoling a friend at the Dunedin fast-food restaurant. More >>
District Health Boards say The Laboratory Workers’ Union is making a mockery of the serious efforts to settle their long-running pay dispute. More >>
In a speech last week to the Queensland Media Club, Australian prime minister John Howard described the sort of world Australians would be living in a decade from now, and his vision of “an Australia rising to new heights” to meet its challenges. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Public Service Association will meet with TVNZ for mediation today over the public broadcaster’s decision to cut 58 jobs in news and current affairs. More >>
Ensuring effective teaching for all students and making secondary teaching a first choice profession are the key goals of PPTA’s Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement (STCA) claim lodged with the Ministry of Education. More >>
Workers at Telecom subcontractor Systemtech have begun a 24 hour strike action over poor pay and conditions and will be protesting outside Telecom’s Christchurch headquarters from 12pm today. More >>
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“Amcor Flexibles should immediately end its lockout of more than 50 factory workers in Auckland and get back to the negotiating table,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
More than sixty EPMU members who were locked out yesterday by multinational packaging company Amcor Flexibles are currently picketing their North Shore factory. More >>
Today as the world observes International Labour Day (or May Day), countless millions of workers on the frontlines of unorganized sector toil hard completely oblivious of today's significance. How is it possible to usher in a change for social justice ... More >>
Everybody wants to see caregiver wages rise, but the NZNO ‘future’ wage assumptions, based on yesterday’s budget announcement are incorrect. More >>
“National’s call for flexible labour law will send shudders down the spines of workers who remember National Party flexibility ‘1990s style’ – manifested in cuts to their wages, conditions and security of work,” CTU president Ross Wilson ... More >>
Not only has National revealed it wants to take money from working families but it also wants to return to the failed workplace employment practices of the 1990s, Labour Minister Ruth Dyson said today. More >>
The Employement Relations Act has played a major role in achieving one of the world's lowest unemployment rates More >>
95bFM Audio: Amelia Hunt talks to EPMU's Andrew Little about the Fisher & Paykels decision to move 350 of its manufacturing jobs to Thailand. More >>
A new initiative to meet labour supply needs for horticulture and viticulture has been launched by Social Development and Employment Minister David Benson-Pope and Immigration Minister David Cunliffe. More >>
95bFM Audio: Jose Barbosa talks to Prime Minister Helen Clark on news a Fisher and Paykel manufacturing plant and what this means for workers, the manufacturing sector, and our industrial economy. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark talks to Wallace Chapman about her ANZAC Day, and her husband Peter's birthday. Also discussed was news of Fisher and Paykel moving manufacturing plant offshore. More >>
The Green Party is welcoming the launch of the Fair Trade Fortnight (28th April – 13th May) to promote fairly traded products that make a positive contribution to the communities in developing countries that produce them. More >>
The closing of Fisher & Paykel's appliance plant would have come as a surprise only if the environment was friendly to business, but its as unfriendly as it gets, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) says. More >>
Brussels, 25 April 2007 (ITUC Online): Police repression continues to dominate certain provinces of Argentina. Teacher Carlos Fuentalba was a fatal victim of police brutality on taking part in a teacher's demonstration in Neuquen on 4 April. He died from a ... More >>
ANZ National’s record half yearly profit of $398 million gives the bank the resources it needs to follow its parent company’s lead and invest heavily in customer service, says Finsec, the bank workers’ union. More >>
“The medical profession is alarmed about the deteriorating industrial climate in district health boards,” said Professor Phil Bagshaw, Convenor of the Pan Professional Medical Forum, today. The medical organisations that make up the membership of the ... More >>
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Strike action looks likely to be a continuing factor in the health system and will be increasingly costly to health boards and patients in both financial and personal terms, says New Zealand First health spokesperson Barbara Stewart. More >>
As another round of industrial action grips our hospitals the Health Minister is still nowhere to be seen, says National’s Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. Lab workers have walked off the job again today and will strike for the third time this month ... More >>
State Of It: A long-awaited Government commissioned report that examined loan-sharks and lending shysters who prey on low socio-economic communities has been put on hold - almost on the eve of it being publicly launched by two Labour ministers. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is considering launching legal action to stop APN from outsourcing its subediting - a decision confirmed today by the media giant. More >>
SPADA - the Screen Production and Development Association – welcomes the new terms of trade negotiated with NZ On Air, which result in the majority of income from programme sales flowing back to programme creators. More >>
"Most of the 2,000 plus collective employment agreements were settled last year without the need for industrial action," CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
Forty-two work stoppages ended in the December 2006 year, Statistics New Zealand said today. This compares with 60 stoppages for the December 2005 year. Stoppages in the December 2006 year involved fewer employees (9,995) and a lower number of ... More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union expects APN to announce its decision regarding the outsourcing of its subediting this afternoon. More >>
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Labour Minister Ruth Dyson today welcomed Statistics New Zealand figures showing the number of work stoppages has remained static over the four quarters of 2006 and a decrease in the total number of stoppages compared with 2005. "Statistics New Zealand ... More >>
The Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association says that policy settings must address domestic inflation. Fix domestic inflation and the exchange rate follows. More >>
National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says Pete Hodgson’s “recidivist absenteeism” from the job of Health Minister is doing nothing to build confidence in the public health system. More >>
People with appointments at Tauranga or Whakatane Hospitals should be turning up on time unless they have been contacted by staff and rescheduled. So far, industrial action by medical radiation technologists (MRTs) has not resulted in any rescheduling ... More >>
Air Nelson has been issued a fourteen day notice of strike action by its workers after the Air New Zealand-owned company repeatedly refused to offer a decent pay rise. More >>
“The real threat to transparent, democratic elections comes from big business donors that hide behind anonymous donation rules, not unions who are upfront about their political activity,” CTU president Ross Wilson said. More >>
Twelve-hundred PSA members have achieved a landmark settlement after lengthy negotiations with Healthcare NZ, a company which is contracted to provide home support and residential disability support services. More >>
“When hundreds of patients suffer cancelled surgery, widespread strike action in the health sector is more than just an ‘employment issue’ that the Minister can duck,” says National’s Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
District Health Boards say the country’s hospitals appear to be heading into a drawn out campaign of strike action by lab workers. Lab Workers’ are in the middle of a two-day strike that ends at 0800 on Friday 13 April. Last week they issued notice ... More >>
Health workers in the laboratory and radiography services have announced their intention of further strike action. Such actions are inappropriate in the health services and place extra and unacceptable risk to the patient groups and stress on the remaining ... More >>
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An 11th hour attempt to prevent tomorrow's strike by Lab workers has failed. More >>
With less than 24 hours until the start of a two day strike by laboratory workers, Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s chief operating officer, Warrick Frater, is reminding the public to see their GP first unless it’s an emergency. More >>
Fresh strike action planned for this month will plunge the hospital system into disarray, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Employees at SkyCity Casino launch a campaign this Saturday against what they describe as the company "profiteering at workers expense?" Faced with steep car park and food price increases the SkyCity workers union SEA-Unite has called for ... More >>
The CTU Komiti Pasefika said today that any easing of Easter trading restrictions would have a negative impact on the ability of Pacific families to take part in worship, family and community activities. More >>
District Health Boards are once again facing strike action by Medical Radiation Technologists who provide services such as X-rays, CT and MRI scans and ultrasound. More >>
Contingency planning at Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) is well underway to ensure minimum risk to patients and maintenance of urgent and acute care during the planned strike action by members of the Medical Laboratory Workers’ Union (MLWU). ... More >>
Statistics show women graduates earn less than male classmates A Statistics New Zealand report into student loans and allowances released this week found that the average income for males is higher when they enter the workforce than the average income ... More >>
Air New Zealand will not outsource its Airport Services work due to the significant support received over the past few days for the alternative in-house solution. More >>
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members in Air New Zealand’s ground services have accepted a package to stop their jobs being outsourced but are pursuing a parliamentary inquiry into the airline’s behaviour. More >>
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board (HBDHB) has received notice of intended strike action by members of the Medical Laboratory Workers’ Union (MLWU). The two day strike action is planned to occur from 8.00am Wednesday 11 April to 8.00am Friday ... More >>
District Health Boards are once again preparing for action by Lab Workers claiming more than 20% in wages and conditions. DHB Spokesman, Gordon Davies – CEO of Canterbury DHB, says DHBs are bitterly disappointed by the notice when they’d moved so far ... More >>
Reports that 400 jobs would go if Air NZ decided to outsource airport services to Swissport are wrong. Air NZ predicted that about 30% of its staff would choose to take redundancy and would not accept jobs with Swissport on lower pay and conditions. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Air New Zealand have reached a settlement over the airline’s threat to contract out its Airport Services work. The settlement is subject to ratification from EPMU members at a series of mass membership ... More >>
Audio: News has broken revealing APN plans to ditch in-house sub-editors from its stable of newspapers including the New Zealand Herald and Hawke's Bay Today. But what exactly does a sub-editor do and should we care? More >>
The red flag of the Unite Union will be flying over Auckland’s Queen St business district from Friday March 23 when the union formally opens its new offices. More >>
APN’s announcement today that it will be outsourcing subediting and layout for its New Zealand newspapers and magazines will result in the loss of decent jobs and a drop in the quality of the news, says the union that represents journalists. More >>
05/03/07 ( www.mountainsentinel.com ) Two recent news stories, taken together, could signal an ominous turn in the invasion of Iraq. The first story appeared on the Time website on February 28th.[1] It discusses Iraqi opposition to government plans to ... More >>
Sydney supporters of the Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners campaign will assemble outside the Sydney's Town Hall House today (Tuesday) at 4pm as part of an International Day of Action against Spotless Services. More >>
Australian supporters of the Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners campaign will assemble outside the Sydney's Town Hall today as part of an International Day of Action against Spotless Services - the largest contract cleaning firm in New Zealand. More >>
Members of the major unions representing staff in New Zealand’s universities have voted overwhelmingly to support the negotiation of national collective employment agreements in the next bargaining round. A ballot, conducted on a university-by-university ... More >>
Tertiary-education sector union talks get under way Representatives from among the main unions in the tertiary-education sector will meet in Wellington next week to begin discussions on the possible formation of a single tertiary-education-sector ... More >>
ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today he was very disappointed that the National Party has announced they are sticking with Labour's Employment Relations Act. "The Employment Relations Act is poor legislation, and sets up a personal grievance procedure that ... More >>
Air New Zealand and the EPMU have agreed to discontinue the Airport Services related proceedings currently underway in the Employment Court. More >>
Presentation to the Industrial Relations Conference: Recently you will have heard much of the “Kiwi way” – and part of that Kiwi Way is a belief in giving people a fair go. And that is giving all people a fair go – we all want to see New Zealanders ... More >>
“Union members will decide whether to accept the proposal to avoid outsourcing at Air New Zealand,” Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today. He was commenting on the media focus on differences in approach of the two unions ... More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Air New Zealand have reached a deal that could stop the outsourcing of 1800 ground services jobs. The deal is based on the same heads of agreement offered to Air New Zealand by the EPMU late ... More >>
Air NZ has told its ground-handling staff -- either accept cuts to your pay and conditions, or you will be outsourced. Yet if they accept the company’s latest proposal, the workers will be sitting ducks for future outsourcing, says the Service and Food Workers ... More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is stunned by Air New Zealand’s decision to present its unionised workers with a collective agreement that has not even been seen by union negotiators at a time when the company is already embroiled ... More >>
Victoria denies underhand tactics over fees Victoria University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Pat Walsh, has described as absolutely absurd claims of underhand behaviour by the University in dealing with a proposal to apply to the Tertiary Education Commission ... More >>
Contributions to Kiwisaver and four weeks holiday are expected to underpin a blow out in public sector wage and salary costs this year. More >>
PSA members who work for Healthcare New Zealand supporting disabled people have voted to suspend industrial action that was scheduled to begin throughout the country this week. More >>
Government and UCOL at odds over glass course The Government and UCOL appear at odds over requests for funding to save UCOL’s Diploma in Glass Design and Production programme, with the result that a private training establishment (PTE) is now to ... More >>
Over a thousand Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members rallied in New Plymouth today for the launch of the union’s FairShare ’07 campaign. EPMU National Secretary, Andrew Little, addressed the rally and laid out the union’s ... More >>
The SFWU should get its facts right before attempting to mislead Air New Zealand staff and customers. A release from the SFWU this morning was riddled with errors that cannot be left unanswered. More >>
The Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association is concerned that under-investment in plant and the ensuing loss of productivity and competitiveness is eroding the region’s manufacturing base and more companies will follow in the wake of Tip Top and leave ... More >>
Cleaners and supporters planning Valentines Day Vigils calling for dignity at work have been met with a court case by cleaning company Total Property Services, says the Service and Food Workers Union. More >>
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at the Christchurch Star and the Oamaru Mail walked off the job this morning after rejecting company offers that included grocery vouchers. More >>
European passengers traveling within New Zealand are constantly amazed that New Zealanders do not lock our bags while traveling on our domestic airline, Air NZ check-in staff say. More >>
UCOL rescue package raises questions In a move which appears at odds with the Government’s tertiary-education strategy, a rescue package for UCOL’s Diploma in Glass Design and Production involves the course being bailed out by local authorities and eventually ... More >>
Air New Zealand would like to reiterate that Airport Services work will be outsourced unless members of both the EPMU and SFWU ratify an agreement which meets the company’s objectives. More >>
A cleaning contracting company with responsible employment policies has become the scapegoat in a union drive for industry-wide reform. More >>
Cleaners and supporters planning Valentines Day Vigils calling for dignity at work have been met with a court case by cleaning company Total Property Services, says the Service and Food Workers Union. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will be pursuing legal action against Air New Zealand after last-ditch negotiations with the company yesterday and today could not produce a proposal with sufficient detail for workers affected. More >>
"Workers will take a keen interest in developing a sustainable New Zealand, and have plenty to bring to the table," CTU president Ross Wilson said today, after the Prime Minister's Statement to Parliament. More >>
PSA members at the IRD have overwhelmingly ratified a new Collective Agreement, covering more than 3000 IRD staff throughout the country. More >>
Air NZ should immediately withdraw its outsourcing proposal and get back to the business of running the airline, says the union representing check-in staff at Auckland International and Domestic airports. More >>
The Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) and Maritime Union of New Zealand (MUNZ) have announced an 'agreement in principle' to form a major new transport union. More >>
National bargaining, tripartism back on agenda Union members in New Zealand universities will begin to gear up for this year’s salary round with a series of meetings starting next week to look at bargaining and on-going tripartite meetings with the Government ... More >>
The 3.2 per cent wage and salary rate increase recorded by the Labour Cost Index released today is to be expected, the Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) notes. More >>
Today’s Labour Cost Index statistics showing record wage rises is being welcomed by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union as a sign that New Zealand workers are starting to get their fair share but the union says the pressure to lift wages ... More >>
OECD review positive of policy direction, notes concerns An international review has labeled change as one of the predominant characteristics of tertiary education policy in New Zealand over the past two decades with, on average, a major review ... More >>
"Only higher wages will ensure that all families can provide lunches and sports gear for their kids as families were all able to in the '60s and 70s," CTU president Ross Wilson said today, in response to John Key's speech in Christchurch. More >>
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at the APN-owned newspaper the Oamaru Mail have voted to take strike action if their claim for a fair pay rise is not met during tomorrow’s negotiations. More >>
Forty-nine work stoppages ended in the September 2006 year, Statistics New Zealand said today. This compares with 52 stoppages for the September 2005 year. Stoppages in the September 2006 year also involved fewer employees (12,508) than in the previous ... More >>
New Nat leader John Key has been eager to set a new strategic agenda, taking popular Brash policy and mixing it with election-winning centrist rhetoric. Selwyn Manning and Wallace Chapman discuss the Nat-Strat. More >>
A pay deal’s been struck with Radiation Therapists who have called off all industrial action. Strikes threatened in Auckland and Wellington on Monday will not go ahead and DHBs will be trying to get back to normal treatment schedules as quickly as possible. More >>
Crucial talks over the future of Air New Zealand passenger and groundhandling services and the 1700 jobs they involve will start tomorrow in Auckland The talks between the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the airline represent the last ... More >>
Origin Pacific workers who are already thousands of dollars out of pocket stand to lose even more money in a wrangle over who should be responsible for sorting out the failed airline’s financial affairs, says their union. More >>
Cancer waiting times are set to blow out even further as radiation therapists begin new strike action this week, says National's Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
District Health Boards are urging Radiation Therapists to accept the pay offer on the table and end their campaign of industrial action. More >>
The Health Minister should confirm that the cost of the radiation therapists strike is now higher than the cost of their pay claim, says National's Health spokesman Tony Ryall. More >>
Air NZ has 'cynical ploy' to reduce labour costs by threat of outsourcing says union More >>
ADT cash processing workers were on strike for more pay today. Despite handling millions of dollars every day supplying banks, many of them are paid only slightly above the new minimum wage. Originally the strike was planned for 2 hours, but the 16 members ... More >>
School support staff have won an improved collective agreement settlement through their union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, after the members rejected an earlier, inferior offer from the Government. More >>
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) working for Guardian Healthcare Group (GHG) are celebrating Christmas a little early this year. After over two-and-a-half years’ negotiations, union ... More >>
“It’s great that Bill English is now supporting the plight of workers,” CTU president Ross Wilson said. More >>
“The decision of the government to amend the health sector code of good faith to confirm and clarify its original intention is to be applauded and Minister of Labour Ruth Dyson is commended for her positive initiative,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive ... More >>
Minister of Labour Ruth Dyson today wondered if the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern) need a refresher course in maths after reading the results of their latest survey. More >>
Tertiary Strategy to drive economic transformation The new Tertiary Education Strategy released this morning underlines the Government’s determination to equip the country with the kind of twenty-first-century skills needed to drive economic transformation, ... More >>
Minister of Labour Ruth Dyson disclosed further National Party links to the Exclusive Brethren, when she noted in Parliament today reports revealing National's unsuccesful Waimakariri candidate and recently approinted Industrial Relations spokesperson, ... More >>
District Health Boards and Junior Doctors will be meeting to discuss how to improve working conditions – this time the meeting is not under threat of strike. More >>
Public Hospital Service Workers are taking strike action tomorrow because District Health Boards (DHB's) and their contractors are refusing to negotiate a single National Collective Employment Agreement (MECA). More >>
Ruth Dyson today questioned John Key's abandonment of National's long held opposition to fair industrial relations law and the sincerity of his latest branding exercise. More >>
Nearly 2,800 Public Hospital Support Workers strike next week over the refusal by District Health Boards (DHB's) and the contractors they employ to negotiate a single Employment Agreement (MECA) for them. Mediation yesterday failed to avert planned ... More >>
After nearly 12 months and 27 days of negotiations, a proposed settlement for primary healthcare (PHC) nurses and administrative staff has been reached, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation announced this morning. More >>
“The success of primary healthcare workers is a strong signal that with the right will and intent, private sector employers can bargain collectively for industry standards in pay in conditions,” CTU president Ross Wilson said. More >>
Staff excluded from teaching-centre governance In a move which has raised the ire of university staff, representatives of tertiary sector unions have been inexplicably excluded from the governing board of Ako Aotearoa: The National Centre for Tertiary ... More >>
The New Zealand Medical Association and the New Zealand Nurses Organisation have reached a settlement on the Primary Health Care MECA (Multi Employer Collective Agreement). More >>
With less than 24 hours until the end of a seven day strike by laboratory workers, Hawke’s Bay District Health Board’s chief operating officer, Warrick Frater, is reminding the public to see their GP first unless it’s an emergency. More >>
After months of negotiation Unite Union has reached a breakthrough collective employment agreement with fast food giant McDonald’s, after signing an agreement earlier this year with Restaurant Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Starbucks) and Red Rooster. More >>
“Young McDonalds workers getting organised in the Unite Union for movement on youth rates have set an example for others to follow,” CTU president Ross Wilson said. “Unite Union’s SuperSizeMyPay.com has been leading the charge this year in the ... More >>
After months of negotiation Unite Union has reached a breakthrough collective employment agreement with fast food giant McDonald’s, after signing an agreement earlier this year with Restaurant Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut and Starbucks) and Red Rooster. More >>
The Alliance Party says the attack on striking health workers by the Prime Minister should smash any remaining illusions that she led a "worker friendly" Government. Alliance President Victor Billot says the Prime Minister and Minister of Health Pete ... More >>
McDonald’s Restaurants NZ Ltd has agreed to a collective agreement with the Unite Union. The collective agreement includes the following: 1. As at 4 December 2006, minimum hourly starting rates are $8.40 for employees aged under 18 years, and $10.25 ... More >>
New National Party leader John Key should demonstrate his strong commitment to families by matching his British counterpart's support for flexible working hours legislation, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says. More >>
Nelson electricity workers whose boss won’t give them a pay rise are refusing to do overtime or out-of-town work. Thirty-six workers at network maintenance company United Group launched industrial action yesterday in frustration at the company’s ... More >>
Health workers and negotiators who precipitate strike action should know that they could be putting patients’ health and welfare at risk, warns the new President of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA). More >>
Medlab Bay of Plenty is a community laboratory that has provided a full laboratory service to the Tauranga hospital since 1996. To clarify public confusion, a Medlab spokesperson reports that Medlab Bay of Plenty laboratory staff are not on strike. More >>
Alliance Party President Victor Billot says politicians are grabbing a fat pay increase, while striking health workers are bearing the brunt of employer and media attacks. More >>
Universities to play a strong role in economic transformation Delegates to the Association of University Staff Annual Conference have been told that universities have a vital contribution to make towards achieving the Government’s goals of accelerating the ... More >>
The Alliance Party has backed striking medical staff saying that they are committed and responsible health workers who have been taken advantage of for too long. Alliance Party President Victor Billot says the health workers have been subject to a media ... More >>
The presidents of New Zealand’s two largest education unions will join Australian workers tomorrow (Thursday November 30) in protesting against industrial laws being used to reduce pay and working conditions in Australia. More >>
Disappointing – that’s how District Health Boards are describing notice from the Service and Food Workers’ Union for a one and a half hour strike later this month. More >>
More than 100 Griffins Papakura workers picketed the factory this morning [Tuesday, 28 November] to protest the arrogant and confrontational approach being taken by management in the collective bargaining negotiations. More >>
Air NZ has threatened the unions representing its ground staff with breaches of its intellectual property rights over stickers opposing cuts in the workers' terms and conditions. More >>
Contact between the advocates in the laboratory workers strike continued last night and today some discussions with the mediator have occurred. However, the strike is still scheduled to go ahead from tomorrow morning. Gordon Davies, CEO of Canterbury ... More >>
“District health boards have bungled the laboratory workers collective agreement negotiations creating a debacle with serious risks of permanent disabilities and possible deaths to patients,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association ... More >>
Efforts to avert the laboratory workers strike have failed with a mediator adjourning talks this afternoon between the laboratory workers’ union and DHBs due to the significant gap between parties. More >>
The Canterbury District Health Board must take full responsibility for surgery shortcomings resulting from strike action. New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) CEO, Geoff Annals, says that “any strike action involves a choice by two parties: a union who decides ... More >>
Significant changes at Whanganui District Health Board are the inevitable outcome of the comprehensive review of the DHB currently underway, Health Minister Pete Hodgson said today. More >>
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