FIRST Union congratulates care workers, prepares new claim
Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 4:25 pm Press Release: First Union
FIRST Union congratulates care workers, prepares pay equity
claim for retail workers
FIRST Union is
congratulating care workers, their unions - E tū, NZNO and
the PSA - and pay equity champion Kristine Bartlett for
securing an offer of a historic pay equity settlement.
“This is a tremendous step forward for working
women,” said FIRST Union Retail and Finance Secretary
Maxine Gay, who also helped develop the pay equity
principles as a member of the Joint Working Group on Pay
Equity.
“This goes to show working women and their
unions are the key to correcting the gender pay
imbalance.”
“We’re sending our congratulations
and our solidarity to care workers, their unions and to
Kristine Bartlett.”
“We’re also preparing our
own pay equity claim for the retail sector. Over 300,000 New
Zealanders work in retail, a sector that was regarded
historically as ‘women’s work’,” said Gay.
“There’s an imbalance in retail that needs
correcting.”
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