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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 >>
The good number of early childhood education centres throughout New Zealand that have opted in to the Government's 20 hours free ECE programme, which kicks off today, is very positive, because it will mean more 3 and 4 year olds have better access ... 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 >>
The Green Party has complained about what it believes is misleading advertising and a failure to warn investors of the financial risks in a private South Island coal mine. More >>
Joseph Barratt reports: Racism is an even more powerful force today than it was in the days of the civil rights movement says Angela Davis an iconic American civil rights activist and professor. More >>
95bFM Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning and 95bFM's Paul Deady discuss how have moved to erode the Fourth State's right to cover Parliament in a free and open environment, including a ban on the use of satire and constraints on video and still photography ... 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 >>
The Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating In Aotearoa/New Zealand In 2007 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 Hawkes Bay DHB has been formally notified that there will be a two-hour stopwork meeting on Friday 27 July commencing at 2pm. Around 70 senior doctors are expected to be involved." More >>
Nominations are now open for this most prestigious and keenly contested annual Award (won by Progressive Enterprises in 2006; the previous winners are: Westpac/BNZ, Telecom, Juken Nissho, Carter Holt Harvey, TransAlta Monsanto and TranzRail - 3 times). Nominations ... More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is calling on the Speaker to reconsider proposed changes to television coverage of the House that would place restrictions on ‘satire, ridicule and denigration’ by broadcast media. 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 >>
International Transport Workers Federation asks fishing agent to explain how Third World crews have it good The International Transport Workers Federation says that some fishing industry operators are still trying to bend the rules protecting overseas ... More >>
Copy of Email from Mike Treen to Emma Butler, General Manager, Human Resources, Skycity 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 >>
Unions will be meeting with Westport Mayor Martin Sawyer today at 1pm to try and save jobs in Wesport following decisions last week by Postie Plus Group and Holcim to leave the small town. More >>
"Young people would love the chance to debate a lowering of the voting age to 16," CTU Youth Union Movement Co-Convenor Ingrid Beckers said today. More >>
The PSA supports the merger of state owned enterprises AgriQuality Ltd and Asure New Zealand Ltd. A bill that will enable the possible merger of AgriQuality and Asure NZ has been passed into law. AgriQuality provides food safety and biosecurity services ... More >>
National Party Industrial Relations spokeswoman Kate Wilkinson says Labour’s pattern of providing taxpayer-funded incentives for people to join unions appears to breach the spirit of employment law. More >>
"Workers and their families want safe workplaces and to feel confident that they will return home from work at the end of each day," CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said today. More >>
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation working in residential aged care have chosen today, the shortest day of the year, to highlight continued staffing shortages in aged care facilities. More >>
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Air Nelson will begin four days of full strike action on Wednesday after members voted this evening to reject the company’s latest pay offer. More >>
"It is very encouraging to see a consensus building that flexible work is important for all New Zealand workers, not just parents of children under five years or with disabilities, as the current Bill before Parliament provides for," CTU secretary ... More >>
The Council of Trade Unions is marking the birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with a screening in Wellington tonight of the recent documentary Burma’s Secret War. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was democratically elected as Prime Minister of Burma in the ... More >>
"The PSA supports the introduction of a new code of conduct for workers employed across the state sector but will closely monitor how it's applied," says PSA National Secretary Brenda Pilott. More >>
PPTA is encouraged by National Party leader John Key’s pledge to address the technology teacher crisis, president Robin Duff said today. Mr Duff said Labour's undervaluing and marginalisation of technology teachers prevented many technology teachers from ... More >>
"Home affordability is not just about house prices - it is also about incomes, and the Council of Trade Unions submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Housing Affordability says that the Select Committee should also look at the problem of low ... More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union's request for an injunction against Air Nelson's use of strikebreaking labour has been upheld by the Employment Court on appeal today. More >>
The National Distribution Union is launching an immediate investigation into Pak 'n Save's following the conviction of Pak 'n Save New Plymouth after four workers suffered dangerous levels of carbon monoxide poisoning. More >>
On 15 June, cleaners will be taking action together on 6 continents in 20 countries in 40 cities around the world. International Justice for Cleaners Day is a chance to publicly recognise the hard and often undervalued work cleaners do. More >>
There is great uptake of the optional 20 hours free amongst early childhood centres that really care about early childhood education rather than returning a profit – and that’s as it should be, says NZEI President Irene Cooper. More >>
A Union that represents workers in aged care residential homes and the community is marking World Elder Abuse Awareness Day by calling on District Health Boards and employers to quickly sort out their new contracts and give caregivers a desperately ... 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 ITF has given a warm and immediate welcome to the vote just announced at the ILO to adopt the Work in Fishing Convention - for which it and its affiliated unions have campaigned for several years. More >>
Mansour Osanloo, a trade union leader who has fought back against a two year Iranian government campaign of arrests and beatings, today arrived in the UK to speak at a London conference. 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 Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Aviation and Marine Engineers Association will present a petition to Parliament today asking for a select committee inquiry into Air New Zealand's behaviour toward staff during recent outsourcing disputes. More >>
“The Government should move now to end the contracting out of prisoner transport,” says PSA organiser, Graham Cuffley. More >>
"Workers have options under KiwiSaver and employers should not be attempting to get workers to agree not to join a KiwiSaver scheme if they had a pay increase," CTU Economist Peter Conway said in response to comments today from EMA Northern. More >>
Spotlight Interview with Stavri Liko, Federal Secretary of the FSASH, the Education and Science Federation of Albania More >>
PSI deeply regrets that the situation in Colombia will not be discussed within the Committee on the Application of Standards, now taking place during the 96th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva. Given the continuing seriousness ... More >>
Around fifty workers and supporters picketed outside Auckland's Centra Airport hotel on Monday evening while Justice Department officials inside were holding a conference on Pasifika issues. The hotel staff were striking in support of a 5% pay increase. More >>
The first meetings will be held at Waitemata on 17 July followed by Tairawhiti (18 July), Northland (19 July) and Tauranga (20 July). Announcements of further meetings will be made later. They are not strike action. More >>
The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) President Jeff Jones will tour IPENZ branches in the South Island this week. 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 >>
IPENZ Chief Executive Dr Andrew Cleland congratulated its Members whose contributions to the engineering community were acknowledged in the Queen's Birthday Honours. More >>
On Monday at 4pm workers at Centra Airport Hotel in South Auckland are taking strike action in support of a 5 percent pay increase. This is their third strike in as many weeks after pay negotiations stalled. More >>
“Senior doctors will be commencing a full round of unprecedented national stopwork meetings on 17 July which are expected to continue over the following 3-4 weeks,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, ... More >>
MEDIA RELEASE Saturday June 9 2007 FROM NZEI TE RIU ROA For Immediate Use Primary Principals Meet To Vote On Claim For Fair And Reasonable Pay Primary principals will meet to vote on a proposed $35 million claimfor fairer pay and paid sabbatical leave ... 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 >>
Facilities services company ISS New Zealand has withdrawn lockout notice issued to its workers in response to the Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) withdrawing strike notices. More >>
Week of action steams ahead into final day The ITF’s Northern European week of action has reached its final day with no let up in pace. More >>
“By passing the further WorkChoices amendments to its Workplace Relations Act the Australian Government has seriously compounded its breaches of Convention 98 on the right to organise and collective bargaining,” New Zealand Council of Trade Unions ... More >>
"The Council of Trade Unions is seeking the support of the United Nations International Labour Organisation to ensure the safety of trade unionist Dennis Maga when he returns to the Philippines," CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said today. More >>
Service workers have lifted a week of strike notices for all DHBs and contractors. More >>
The settlement of the long running hospital service workers dispute looks doubtful after a major employer broke away from national bargaining says the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Inc. More >>
The ITF Northern European week of action (4-8 June) is now in its fourth day. More >>
University frustrated over CoRE funding; 1. Putting general staff on the map 2. TEC retirement confirmed 3. VC says no attempt to bring PBRF round forward 4. Wellington’s polytechnics get funding to work more closely 5. Holding a degree benefits Māori, ... More >>
The ITF maritime week of action today reached its midway point, with participants reporting scores of ship visits across northern Europe. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is disappointed by today’s reserve bank decision to raise the cash rate by another quarter of a percent. The decision comes less than 24hours after another New Zealand manufacturer, Amcor Flexibles, ... More >>
Early this morning the ITF and its affiliates began a week of action (4 to 8 June) that will visit and inspect vessels across Northern Europe. ITF inspectors, dockers and union volunteers will investigate ships irrespective of whether they are flying ... More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Public Service Association have saved a quarter of the 59 news and current affairs jobs set to be cut by TVNZ, but remain concerned about the effect the cuts will have on news quality. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is once again calling for a new approach to manufacturing policy in New Zealand after the closure of Skellerup in Christchurch and Amcor Flexibles' East Tamaki plant. More >>
The Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (CMA) says the Reserve Bank needs to send a strong and clear message that it is willing use the OCR to tackle domestic inflation, sooner than later, or see more businesses, such as Skellerup, restructuring ... More >>
North Shore City Council’s proposed rate increase for 2007-08 is too high compared to the rate of inflation. But it’s no surprise, looking at the council’s history. 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 >>
A community campaign led by North Dunedin businesses and residents has been successful in stopping Westpac bank from closing their local branch. Westpac announced today that it will keep its Gardens branch in North Dunedin open following overwhelming ... 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 >>
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 >>
The lockout of two thousand public hospital cleaners, orderlies and kitchen staff from midnight Monday 4 th June has been branded as abusive and vicious by the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Inc. More >>
NZ Actors Equity are supportive of local actors suing New Line for merchandising money from Lord of the Rings, Two Towers & Return of the King. More >>
Unite Union says don't blame Mercury workers for failed government policies Customer services staff at Mercury have been in the firing line over the past week in the wake of the death of Folole Muliaga. Unite Union is asking the public calling Mercury ... More >>
Employer representatives from the District Health Boards and Contract companies have walked out of mediation this evening says the Service and Food Workers Union. More >>
Brussels, 30 May 2007 (ITUC Online): The International Trade Union Conference to Promote Sustainable Development, held from 23 to 24 in Conakry, ended with the adoption of a roadmap reflecting the demands of the trade union movement and civil society, ... More >>
A two day strike, by administration staff working in public hospitals in Wellington, Wanganui and Taranaki, has been called off, after the boards improved their pay offers. More >>
Budget 07 – A good step in the right direction, but we need to do more More >>
Global union federation the ITF has politely declined to abandon the name of an internal union consultative network, following an invitation from transport operator FirstGroup – delivered by top international law firm Slaughter and May – to do so. More >>
Scoop News: Dennis Maga a Philippines human rights activist claims the Philippines government will arrest him for protesting against his country's president while she attended the InterFaith Dialogue Forum in Waitangi. Dennis Maga travelled to New ... More >>
A book of condolences for the family of Folole Muliaga will be opened by the Solidarity Union, who organised a protest at the headquarters of Mercury Energy on Thursday. The book will be on the Union's stall at South Auckland's Otara Markets from 10am ... More >>
Taking out a contract on someone's life took on a new meaning in Mangere yesterday, the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota says. Northern Regional Secretary Jill Ovens says the "gangsters" in this case were the state-owned energy ... More >>
Taking out a contract on someone's life took on a new meaning in Mangere yesterday, the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota says. Northern Regional Secretary Jill Ovens says the "gangsters" in this case were the state-owned energy ... More >>
The New Zealand affiliates of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) have announced their support of Australian maritime workers involved in the Capo Noli dispute in Port Kembla, New South Wales. More >>
Taking out a contract on someone’s life took on a new meaning in Mangere yesterday, the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota says. More >>
The decision over the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union’s case for an injunction preventing Air Nelson from using allegedly illegal strike-breakers has been reserved. More >>
An attempt to effectively impose compulsory unionism on rest home workers is probably unlawful, says Business NZ. District Health Boards are increasing funding for contracted rest homes but want them to get it only if they sign collective agreements with their ... 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 >>
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 >>
Strikes by hospital service workers tomorrow and Friday have been called off while negotiations continue to find a settlement to the pay talks. More >>
The Government’s NCEA changes show it is committed to improving the NCEA, but they should be viewed as a beginning, New Zealand Secondary Principals’ Council (NZSPC) chair Arthur Graves said today. More >>
Arroyo humiliated herself in NZ by lying about state of RP human rights - KMU Anti-Arroyo activist fears arrest upon arrival from New Zealand 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 >>
“The Government’s linking of funding for the aged the aged care workforce with collective bargaining is the only way to genuinely solve the low pay crisis across the sector,” said New Zealand Nurses Organisation organising service manager Cee ... More >>
"Collective bargaining provides the best opportunity and framework for addressing working conditions and chronic low wages in the aged care sector," Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said today. 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 >>
Labor center Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) today warned immigration officials and Malacanang to refrain from any form of harassment or arrest against Dennis Maga, Spokesperson of Free Ka Bel Movement (FKBM) and Secretary General of ANGLO-KMU upon his arrival ... More >>
The Labour Government is pushing compulsory unionism on aged care workers at the expense of older New Zealanders, says National’s Associate health spokeswoman, Jo Goodhew. She is commenting on DHBs demanding aged care employers to promote collective ... More >>
Following confidential mediation today a negotiated settlement has been reached between ex-Subway worker Jackie Lang and Galcol Ltd (trading as Subway George Street, Dunedin). More >>
NCEA changes announced today include some welcome design and implementation improvements which will benefit students and teachers, PPTA president Robin Duff said today. More >>
New Zealand First has rejected the notion of DHBNZ making collective agreements, effectively enforcing compulsory unionism, a condition of the large boost in elder care funding, being passed on to providers. 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 >>
More than 300 civilian staff working for the Defence Force attended lunchtime rallies throughout the country today (Monday May 28) to protest an offer of a 0% per cent pay rise. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has filed for an injunction against Air New Zealand Link company Air Nelson over the airline’s use of illegal strike-breaking labour. More >>
The Green Party has welcomed reports that Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is attending a conference in New Zealand that is promoting religious and cultural tolerance and understanding. More >>
Civilian staff working for the Defence Force are holding lunchtime rallies throughout the country tomorrow (Monday May 28) to protest an offer of a 0% per cent pay rise. More >>
A Filipino trade unionist will be protesting in a cage against the Filipino President on the steps of Parliament today at 12.30pm in Wellington as the President attends a state lunch in her honour, says the National Distribution Union. More >>
Public hospitals deny food to staff and visitorsPublic hospitals around the country intend to deny food to visitors and staff says the Service and Food Workers Union. More >>
"The union movement is gravely concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in the Philippines and are urging our Prime Minister to raise this with Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during her New Zealand visit next week," CTU president ... More >>
The Council of Trade Unions today opened nominations for the four elected positions within the organisation, President, Vice President, Vice President Maori and Secretary-Treasurer. More >>
University research ranking row “unseemly”; Also in Tertiary Update this week; Paid union meetings planned to consider progress in salary and tripartite talks; University salaries increase, but still lag behind other Commonwealth countries; ... More >>
Striking Air Nelson workers will be picketing at Nelson airport today to protest against the Air New Zealand-owned company’s refusal to offer them a decent pay increase. More >>
All Whites Soccer Players Latest To Join National Trade Union Body “I am delighted that the union for All Whites has seen the value in working with other unions at a national level, and look forward to welcoming them at our National Council today,” ... More >>
"Public service workers are at the heart of providing the high quality services that the public of New Zealand demand," CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
The Government is considering cutting the tax on redundancy packages. Under the current rule, workers are taxed at the marginal personal tax rate. The EPMU has been lobbying the Government on the issue has called for the rules to change. More >>
Wellington (dpa) - Filipino labour unionist Dennis Maga is conducting a speaking tour of New Zealand to condemn political repression and killings in his homeland a week before President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo arrives for an official visit, a ... More >>
When the mandarins of the Public Service Associaton (PSA) raise a glass to their Partnership for Quality agreement at Parliament’s Banquet Hall today they should reflect on whether the agreement should be renamed Partnership for Public Value, ... More >>
NZ Actors Equity is proud to announce Jennifer Ward-Lealand as their newly elected President. She is integral to the NZ Performers Committee which represents members of Actors Equity. "I am delighted to be representing performers to be part of a strengthened ... 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 >>
PSA President, Keith Gutsell and Prime Minister Helen Clark are formally signing a new Partnership for Quality Agreement between the union and the Government at Parliament tomorrow. (Wed May 23) More >>
What's engenerate? What do you do if you're an engenerator? Are you part of the engeneration? More >>
“Union support for Kiwisaver is overwhelming despite some high profile media comment suggesting otherwise,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
A visiting Filipino unionist has begun a speaking tour to condemn the political repression and killings at last week’s elections in the Philippines, one week before the Philippines President is a guest of the New Zealand government. More >>
2 days of mediation have failed to halt pending large scale industrial action in New Zealand's public hospitals involving 2800 service workers. 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's vital that money in The Budget to support disabled New Zealanders is used to lift the low pay rates of the support workers in the sector," says PSA National Secretary Richard Wagstaff. 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 >>
“The enhanced KiwiSaver scheme provides a real benefit for PSA members working for organisations that do not have retirement savings schemes,” says PSA National Secretary, Richard Wagstaff. More >>
"I hope that that employers will use their large tax cut to invest in modernisation, improving productivity, skills and boosting wages for workers in a tight labour market," CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
The country’s largest private sector union has welcomed Budget 2007 saying it has the potential to boost incomes. More >>
Auckland students welcomed yesterday’s Budget announcement to increase access to full student allowances as a step in the right direction, as well as increased funding to ensure universities can retain high-quality teaching and research staff. More >>
Facilities Services company ISS New Zealand was left with no option but to issue lockout notices to health sector workers planning strike action because it was the only way to ensure patient and staff safety for its District Health Board clients. More >>
Overseas shareholders in Australian owned banks will benefit hugely from the corporate tax handouts announced in today’s budget says Finsec, the bank workers union. Finsec estimates the business tax cut could see the profits of Australian owned banks increase ... More >>
Hear Dennis Maga Unionist & Human Rights Activist; Marxism 2007 Workers Party Conference;Protest: Stop the Hostage Detentions at Mt Eden Prison! More >>
A threatened lockout of cleaners, orderlies and kitchen staff by three out of four contract companies is being condemned by the Service and Food Workers Union as bully boy tactics and flying in the face of New Zealand's justice system. More >>
Tertiary education has been assured of new funding when the 2007 Budget is delivered this afternoon by the Minister of Finance, Dr Michael Cullen. In a series of pre-Budget announcements over the past fortnight, Dr Cullen, also the Minister for Tertiary ... More >>
A union that succeeded against an extended lock out of 600 locked out supermarket distribution centre workers last year has condemned the lock out of low paid hospital workers and pledged its support to a union movement campaign to support them. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is renewing its calls for government to change its approach to manufacturing following the announcement of 200 job losses at Christchurch-based high-tech manufacturer Dynamic Controls. More >>
District Health Boards say the Service Worker’s Union shouldn’t shut the door on what is a significant first pay offer to members. More >>
“The negative impact of shop trading on Easter Sunday will not only be felt by the 200,000 strong retail workforce, but by families, sports clubs, voluntary groups, worship activities and in marae across the whole country,” CTU secretary Carol ... More >>
Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning writes: The burden Michael Cullen carries into Budget 07 is the dilemma: how to deliver to Labour's historical constituency at a time when political pragmatism insists Labour must seduce center/centre-right voters. 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 >>
Shop workers are urging Members of Parliament to exercise their conscience votes in favour of family and community life and not commerce when they vote on a Bill aimed at opening shops on Easter Sunday tonight. 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 >>
In what is the largest number of strike notices ever issued, the Service and Food Workers Union has announced 4160 separate strike actions on behalf of two thousand eight hundred cleaning, catering and orderlies employed public hospitals. More >>
“Unions were proud to have played a key role in the campaign to Make Poverty History,” CTU vice president Maori Sharon Clair said today. More >>
Today's Department of Labour wage growth report shows that campaigns run by union members in the finance sector are helping to deliver them the largest salary rises in New Zealand – 5% compared to a total increase of 3.1% for all workers. 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, the Public Service Association and TVNZ have concluded mediation and agreed to a consultation process regarding the public broadcaster's proposal to reduce its workforce by 140 to 160 jobs. More >>
“BNZ’s ‘save the kiwi’ campaign may need to focus on those kiwi customers and homeowners who are struggling to get by given that Its own half yearly financial report shows it adding an extra AU$2 billion of debt to the New Zealand economy in ... More >>
The Green Party has welcomed the news that the Police have now decided to use common sense, exercise their discretion and drop their prosecution of sacked Subway worker Jackie Lang, Greens Industrial Relations Spokesperson Sue Bradford says. More >>
Criminal charges against ex-Subway worker and Autonomous Workers Union member Jackie Lang for sharing a diet coke at work were dropped this morning in the Dunedin District Court. More >>
Parliament’s review of monetary policy needs to look at the behaviour of New Zealand’s major banks if it is to find alternative ways of curbing inflation, says Andrew Casidy, the General Secretary of the bank workers’ union, Finsec. 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 >>
AUS Tertiary Update More >>
The Association of University Staff (AUS) has welcomed the announcement today by the Minister for Tertiary Education, Dr Michael Cullen, that universities will receive $129 million in new funding over the next four years. More >>
“Can the bank economists this time please stop saying low unemployment is bad news and look in the mirror?” CTU president Ross Wilson said today. “It is significant that today’s labour market statistics show we have the highest employment level ... More >>
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 >>
Hospital cleaners, kitchen, orderly and security staff will stop work tomorrow (Thursday 10th May) to vote on what could be one of the largest strike actions in public hospitals. 2500 members of the Service and Food Workers Union are expected to reject a pay offer ... 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 >>
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 >>
Earlier today a protest organised by the Dunedin branch of Young Labour met on the Union Lawn of the University of Otago and marched to the George Street Subway to demonstrate in support of sacked Subway employee Jackie Lang. 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 >>
G8 Labour Summit: Social rules on investment and trade, and effective regulation of private equity and hedge funds needed More >>
"A huge international corporate like Subway should know better than to fire someone at will for such an incredibly minor issue as drink sharing," Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
The Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) has been awarded a Judges’ Commendation Award at the New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards. Held on May 1st at the Sky City Convention Centre in Auckland, the Awards recognise excellence ... 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 >>
Wage growth remains modest compared with inflation, with ordinary time wages up by 3.2% in the last year while consumer prices were up by 2.5%, the Council of Trade Unions said today. 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 >>
After a two-year campaign, New Zealand Nurses Organisation members employed in primary health care have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new multi-employer collective agreement. More >>
Over the past week I have set up the first ever NZ Bloggers union. Based entirely on the model set up by our student associations in NZ, I have co-opted all NZ bloggers to be members. More >>
After being locked out for two and a half days Amcor workers have won a deal meeting their demands and returned to work. 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 >>
The Service and Food Workers Nga Ringa Tota, which represents Aged Care residential workers and those working in home care, has welcomed yesterday's Government funding announcement as a tremendous boost for low-paid workers. More >>
Everybody wants to see caregiver wages rise, but the NZNO ‘future’ wage assumptions, based on yesterday’s budget announcement are incorrect. More >>
Unionised Aged Care workers have plenty to celebrate today as a May Day funding announcement by the Minister of Health Pete Hodgson gives a much needed cash injection to the most neglected and under-valued sector of the New Zealand health system. More >>
"Workers have more to celebrate this May Day than they've had for a whole generation. In fact 2007 may go down in history as the beginning of a fourth wave of trade unionism(1)", says Peter Hall-Jones, from the New Unionism network (www.newunionism.net). More >>
PSI is seizing the occasion of International Workers’ Day to call for a fair globalisation and the defence of quality public services. PSI General Secretary, Hans Engelberts said, “Globalisation has so far failed to deliver tangible benefits for working ... 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 >>
Multinational packaging company Amcor has locked out more than sixty Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members from its Albany site after they refused to accept company demands that would have put their health and safety at risk. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has withdrawn its notice of strike action at Air Nelson after the employment court indicated it would support the Air New Zealand-owned company's injunction against the notice over a legal technicality. More >>
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union welcomes the announcement of a select committee inquiry into New Zealand’s monetary policies, but is concerned by the political point-scoring the issue has provoked. 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 >>
"It is clear that the Reserve Bank's attempts to cool the housing market by putting up interest rates is worsening the exchange rate and hurting exporters, and the CTU is encouraging the Finance and Expenditure select committee to look at a more appropriate ... More >>
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