Employers are totally
opposed to any return to compulsory union membership, says
Business NZ.
The engineers' union today said non-union
members were freeloading on the conditions gained by unions,
and called for a change to the Employment Relations Act to
require everyone at a workplace with a collective agreement
to be forced to join a union.
But Business NZ Executive
Director Anne Knowles says that would be the same thing as
compulsory unionism and New Zealanders would not stand for
it.
"The principle of freedom of association - which the
Employment Relations Act is built on - must be maintained.
"This is an ominous signal of what the union movement
wants from the forthcoming review of the Employment
Relations Act," Ms Knowles said.
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