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CTU To Support Uber Drivers Rallying For Basic Workers’ Rights
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 06:18:55 +1300 | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
This case is relevant not only to gig or platform workers, but to all working people. All workers who have been misclassified as contractors have the right to test their employment status in court.More >>
Luxon Must Rule Out New Taxes, Not Adopt Labour’s Approach
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:31:58 +1300 | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Reacting to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s refusal to rule out introducing new taxes at the budget, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy, said: “Today’s refusal to rule out new taxes suggests the Government is nothing more ...More >>
Uber Drivers To Rally As Appeal On Contractor Misclassification Begins
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:10:34 +1300 | FIRST Union
WHAT: Uber drivers are holding a rally outside the Court of Appeal in Wellington tomorrow, as the company begins its appeal against 2022’s Employment Court verdict (in a case taken jointly by FIRST Union and E tū) that four drivers were permanent ...More >>
NZ Post's proposal to lay-off 700 posties - Postal Workers Union counter-proposal
Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:25:14 +1300 | Postal Workers Union of Aotearoa
Postal Workers Union counter-proposal response to NZ Post proposing to lay off 700 posties and expanding its ‘third class’ workforce The Postal Workers Union has a counter-proposal in response to NZ Post’s proposal to lay off all 700 posties ...More >>
Unite Union Offers Support To Freyberg Students Facing Disciplinary Action Over Protest
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:51:54 +1300 | Unite Union
Unite Union has offered professional advice and assistance to any Freyberg student facing disciplinary action over the recent protest at the school. “A school strike and protest in 2006 over youth rates drew very similar criticism at the time. In ...More >>
Rotorua Workers Deserve To Be Paid Fairly
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:07:42 +1300 | Amalgamated Workers Union
59 members of the Amalgamated Workers Union NZ (AWUNZ) and 16 members of First Union have voted to go on strike after months of negotiations resulted in a failure to come to an agreement with their employer Infracore. Infracore is a CCO of Rotorua ...More >>
E Tū TVNZ Members Launch Save Our Stories Campaign
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:15:48 +1300 | E tu
E tū, the union for journalists and media workers in Aotearoa, is today launching a campaign to stop the proposed changes at TVNZ. The Save Our Stories campaign is a response to last week’s announcement of a proposal for significant cuts across ...More >>
New Bill Removes Employers’ Requirement To Collect Union Dues
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:36:41 +1300 | ACT New Zealand
Employers will no longer be obligated to automatically deduct fees from union members’ pay if a bill lodged in Parliament’s ballot by ACT MP Dr Parmjeet Parmar is drawn and passes. “Currently, the Employment Relations Act makes employers responsible ...More >>
Scrapping Pay Parity Is Not The Solution To The ECE Sector Crisis
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:59:51 +1300 | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa members working in early childhood education (ECE) say the Government should come clean on whether it is going to scrap pay parity for early childhood teachers. Pay parity means the pay rates of ECE qualified kaiako (teachers) are determined ...More >>
Police Association And NZ Police Pay Talks Ongoing
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:23:48 +1300 | NZ Police Association
The New Zealand Police Association, Te Aka Hāpai met with Police today to continue pay negotiations in the wake of the association’s rejection of last week’s offer. Association president Chris Cahill says Police had nothing further to offer because ...More >>
Government Attack On Science Steps Up - New Cash Grab Focus Threatens Callaghan Innovation Scientists
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:34:45 +1300 | PSA
Callaghan Innovation’s new focus on commercial-only research threatens the livelihoods of scores of scientists and risks damaging long term research that benefits New Zealand. "This is another sad consequence of the Government’s reckless austerity drive ...More >>
TVNZ: Union Members Say “No” To Proposal
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:40:32 +1300 | E Tu
E tū has formally written to TVNZ on behalf of union members, raising serious concerns about the proposed changes and the process laid out by the company. The letter was sent to TVNZ’s chief executive, the executive editor of news and current affairs, ...More >>
Taxpayers’ Union Slams Unbelievable Rates Hike From Greater Wellington Regional Council
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:43:04 +1300 | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to Greater Wellington Regional Council's proposal to hike its rates by 19.8% for the 2024/25 financial year, Taxpayers Union spokesman, Alex Murphy, said: "Time and again we see councils come up with these ludicrous rates hikes to ...More >>
Education Leaders Call On PM To Save School Lunch Programme
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:58:29 +1300 | NZEI
Aotearoa’s education sector leaders have jointly written to the Prime Minister, urging him to continue investing in Ka ora Ka Ako (the Healthy School Lunches Programme) at current levels. Leaders of schools, early learning peak bodies and unions say ...More >>
National’s Changes To Labour Trust Tax Bill Pathetic And Kicks Farmers
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:19:55 +1300 | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming the Finance and Expenditure Committee’s recommended changes to the proposed trust tax hike saying they barely touch the sides. Taxpayers’ Union spokesman, Jordan Williams, said: “The recommended $10,000 income de minimis ...More >>
Christchurch Health Workers To Protest Holidays Act Payment Delays
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:33:28 +1300 | NZNO
Today, health care workers in Canterbury Waitaha will protest the ongoing, almost eight-year delay in the payment of their holiday pay and other leave owed to them. At 12 noon, members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki ...More >>
Government Not Vigorous Enough In Growing Nurses To Achieve Health Targets
Fri, 8 Mar 2024 14:32:51 +1300 | NZNO
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says it’s great the Government has announced five new health targets, but wonders how they will be met without a full nursing workforce that is locally grown and culturally ...More >>
Christchurch Health Workers To Protest Payment Delays
Fri, 8 Mar 2024 12:14:33 +1300 | NZNO
On Monday, health care workers in Canterbury Waitaha will protest the ongoing, almost eight-year delay in the payment of their holiday pay and other leave owed to them. At 12 noon, members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki ...More >>
CTU: Govt Must Commit To Follow Australia’s Lead On Pay Gap Reporting
Fri, 8 Mar 2024 11:56:43 +1300 | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
In 2023, the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women, acting as New Zealand’s Pay Transparency Advisory Group, recommended that a mandatory reporting system be adopted to help lower the ethnic and gender pay gap and increase transparency. ...More >>
Care And Support Workers Deliver Open Letter Signed By 9,100 People Calling For Full And Fair Pay Equity Now
Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:57:20 +1300 | PSA
Delegates from the three unions representing care and support workers are today - on International Women’s Day - delivering an open letter to the head of Te Whatu Ora demanding urgent action on their pay equity claim. "There are 65,000 care ...More >>