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Syd Keepa new CTU Vice-President Māori
Syd Keepa new CTU Vice-President Māori
The Council of Trade Unions (Te Kauae Kaimahi) has elected a new Vice-President Māori.
Peter Conway, CTU Secretary, said today that “we warmly welcome Syd Keepa as a CTU Officer, joining Helen Kelly, Richard Wagstaff and me. We have all worked closely with Syd as one of the Conveners of Te Runanga o Nga Kaimahi Māori o Aotearoa.”
Syd Keepa
replaces Sharon Clair who has recently resigned as
Vice-President Māori.
Peter Conway said that Syd
Keepa has tribal affiliations with Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Maru,
and Ngai Tuhoe and a long history of active involvement in
the union movement.
Syd Keepa has worked in forestry, and the pulp and paper sector and also as a truck driver. He has been a member of the Timber Workers Union, Northern Drivers Union, Pulp and Paper Workers Union and the Wood Industries Union. He was a delegate with the Northern Drivers Union (1979) and the Pulp & Paper Workers Union (1982) and went on to become Branch President of the Pulp & Paper Workers Union. When the Timber Workers Union and the Pulp & Paper Workers Union amalgamated it became the Wood Industries Union. Syd was Auckland Branch President for the Wood Industries Union, then National President of the Wood Industries Union.
He commenced working with the National Distribution Union in 1999 as Apiha Māori and Wood Sector Organiser in Auckland.
ENDS
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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