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University Research Supports CTU Case
University Research Supports CTU Case for Strengthening Employment Relations Act
“New research by Victoria University strongly supports the Council of Trade Unions’ case for strengthening of the Employment Relations Act,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today
Professor Pat Walsh this week released research which shows that the Act is failing in its key objective of promoting collective bargaining, and that there has been little measurable change in the bargaining environment since the Act came into force more than two years ago.
“The research conclusively proves the CTU claim that the ERA was a very moderate change to our employment laws,” Ross Wilson said. “Unfortunately it is now proving to be so moderate as to be ineffective in achieving its stated objectives.
“This is partly because many employers have used sophisticated legal strategies to frustrate the Act, and it is partly because weaknesses in the law have been exposed in practice over the past two years,” he said
The CTU has proposed four key objectives to Government in the review of the Act: real promotion of collective bargaining concrete and meaningful good faith provisions an end to freeloading by non-union members protection of vulnerable workers on transfer of a business
“The Victoria University research shows that the
Act is not working as intended and that key provisions need
to be strengthened by amendments,” Ross Wilson
said.
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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