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Survey Shows Employment Law Weakness
Survey Shows Employment Law Weakness
The results of a new survey confirm growth in union membership but also identify the weaknesses in the Employment Relations Act’s capacity to promote collective bargaining as it was intended to do, Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today.
The annual survey by Victoria University’s Industrial Relations Centre showed union membership had increased for the fourth year in a row.
However, it also said the ERA had not turned back the anti-union tide of the Employment Contracts Act, so large sections of the workforce were still disadvantaged by not being able to bargain collectively.
The report was further evidence for the need for amendments to strengthen the Act, as contained in the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill currently before Parliament, Ross Wilson said.
“Unless there is marked
growth in collective bargaining, thousands of New Zealand
workers will continue to be disadvantaged – as yesterday’s
Human Rights Commission report
confirmed.”
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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