workers’ rights

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health and safety (156)
unemployment (251)
Unions (427)
wages (502)

Go well Helen Kelly

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:29 am, October 8th, 2015 - 60 comments

Helen is standing down from her role as President of the CTU due to health reasons, but will remain active supporting union causes.

Greetings E Tū Union

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:57 pm, October 7th, 2015 - 40 comments

E Tū Union, the amalgamation of the EPMU and the Service and Foodworkers Union has formally launched.

Launch of New Zealand’s largest private sector trade union

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:08 am, October 6th, 2015 - 18 comments

Details of the announcement tomorrow of the formation of the largest private sector union in the country.

Bunnings strike

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:28 pm, September 26th, 2015 - 36 comments

Bunnings staff are striking today after rejecting unfair contracts.

OIA on Zero Hours reveals just what an attack on workers it is.

Written By: Helen Kelly - Date published: 11:39 am, September 24th, 2015 - 53 comments

We have the documents leading up to the what can only be described as a dreadful piece of law legalising employment agreements which tie workers to an employer without any of the reciprocity of guaranteed hours of work. At a time like now – where work in this country is so badly paid, with so little protection – we get this.

Paula Bennett’s loopy rules do not actually exist

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:30 am, September 23rd, 2015 - 26 comments

The Government has admitted that at least some of the loopy rules mentioned by Paula Bennett in support of the Loopy Rules review do not actually exist.

NRT: Go on strike, get a police record

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:30 am, September 9th, 2015 - 4 comments

Over in the UK, the government is carrying out an unprecedented attack on employment and union rights in an effort to return things to their C19th utopia. Now they want to force striking workers to wear armbands and give their names to police as well. Presumably for blacklisting people exercising their rights.

2.1 Times More Likely to get a pay rise…

Written By: tracey - Date published: 7:48 am, September 2nd, 2015 - 6 comments

If you still wonder WHY anyone would want to join a union, the fact that union members are 2.1 x more likely to get a pay rise might make you wade through the anti-union propaganda. Some unions escape scorn, like the Police Union which is referred to as an Association. It’s probably an oversight though, not anything deliberate…

Another farm death

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:01 am, August 28th, 2015 - 23 comments

Last night the Nats passed their widely ridiculed health and safety legislation. This morning a Waikato farm worker died in a workplace accident. Sincere condolences to his family and friends.

No, National shouldn’t have balanced the books.

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 9:30 am, August 28th, 2015 - 34 comments

Simon Louisson recently made a post about National’s profligacy, and all of the debt they have racked up. Guest poster Michael disagrees with Simon and says that “Yes, National was profligate.” and “No, National should not have balanced the books.”

Watkins on health and safety mess

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 10:02 am, August 27th, 2015 - 17 comments

“John Key’s increasingly lacklustre defence of the shambles consists of answers that sound more like satire by the day.”

National scared of farmers?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:07 am, August 24th, 2015 - 41 comments

As the worm turns, the Nats are all over the place on health and safety. Andrew Little suggests that National is “terrified of the farming lobby”. Something sure has to explain the fact that they ended up fronting this crock.

Health and safety categories – ludicrous and venal

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:07 am, August 22nd, 2015 - 8 comments

A small sample of the reaction to National’s “health” and “safety” nonsense.

Zero integrity on zero hours

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 2:53 pm, August 21st, 2015 - 4 comments

If you thought the Nats promising to sort out zero hours contracts was too good to be true — you were right.

Government braces for expected worm farm mini golf fatality onslaught

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, August 21st, 2015 - 50 comments

Apparently worm farms and mini golf ranges are dangerous places. And worm farmers playing mini golf are in grave peril.

Nanaia Mahuta: Māori Party should stand up for workers

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:00 pm, August 19th, 2015 - 17 comments

Nanaia Mahuta is calling on the Māori Party to do the right thing for Māori workers and vote to strengthen the Health and Safety Reform Bill.

Key priorities – puppy photo op not Pike River people

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:40 am, August 19th, 2015 - 27 comments

Unbelievable.

Unite wins back pay for KFC worker

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:00 pm, August 15th, 2015 - 5 comments

After winning guaranteed hours for Restaurant Brands workers, UNITE has held KFC in Kaikohe to their contract.

National Ltd™ Enabling Corporate Murderers

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:17 am, August 14th, 2015 - 12 comments

But wait there’s more . . . National Ltd™’s attitude to worker safety has, it seems, been successfully installed into the very government agency responsible for holding employers to account for worker deaths.

“A new union to fight for the future of work”

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:00 pm, August 10th, 2015 - 48 comments

The two largest Labour Party affiliated unions are going to merge.

#Talleyban. Standard Exclusive: MWU Blacklisted by Boss

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 10:07 am, August 10th, 2015 - 83 comments

Talleys has de-recognised the Meat Workers Union and refused to bargain with them. They have told the workers to set up a new, yellow union. Or else. Brighter Future? Not under National. This is what the recent changes in employment law were intended to achieve. It’s union busting in a brutal, thuggish form.

250 to 300 Job Losses at Unitec in Auckland

Written By: tracey - Date published: 10:23 am, August 8th, 2015 - 84 comments

Under Unitec’s new vision students will be known as Customers. Student services will be outsourced (overseas)

Aspiration statement

To be a world leader in contemporary applied learning and an agent of positive economic and social change

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Stand with the AFFCO/Talley’s workers!

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:30 am, August 6th, 2015 - 41 comments

Next Monday 1,000 workers at Talley’s owned AFFCO will take strike action.

# Talleyban

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 5:50 pm, August 4th, 2015 - 47 comments

Talleys have fired the first shots in National’s new class war. You can stand with the AFFCO workers and reject the Tories new anti-union law. Boycott Talleys. Make a stand for your fellow Kiwis.

Why did this take a private prosecution?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:54 am, August 4th, 2015 - 15 comments

The CTU win in a private prosecution over a forestry worker’s death. Where was WorkSafe?

Deborah McMillan’s story

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:30 am, August 3rd, 2015 - 36 comments

Deborah McMillan’s husband and Skyla McMillan’s dad Shane was killed in a workplace accident five years ago. They are part of a campaign to strengthen the currently weakened health and safety legislation.

The modern precariat and the Unconditional Basic Income

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 2:09 pm, August 2nd, 2015 - 127 comments

A UBI would allow ordinary people to shift their daily focus from doing paid jobs making money for others, to doing useful work of their own choice, under their own control.

A thinking opposition

Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 7:36 am, August 1st, 2015 - 56 comments

So the news on Labour’s first paper from its “Future of Work” Commission revolves around “ex-Labour member” Phil Quin noticing some missing quote marks and National making gleeful diversions from it. But of course what is actually important is the content.