News from 2006

Workers have won an interim 2% increase and time and half for overtime as negotiations continue at Systemtech. Systemtech is a subcontractor that does provisioning work for Transfield...

After six months of negotiations, including more than a month of rolling strikes, workers at TVNZ this week ratified an agreement including a fifth week’s service leave...

Christmas will be a little easier for workers at Progressive Enterprises when they get a $100 Christmas bonus from their unions next week. The workers were locked out...

Due to a recent Employment Relations Authority win regarding domestic leave practices at Air New Zealand ground services the EPMU wants to hear from ground service staff...

Ex Origin Pacific workers may face a bleak Christmas this year with the airline’s receivers having failed to pay out any of the redundancy or holiday pay...

National MP Wayne Mapp has been dumped as the party’s spokesperson for industrial relations, just weeks after his attempts to bring in a 90 day no-rights period...

We end 2006 looking back at some great achievements for the year. We've kept up the pace on decent pay settlements. We've taken on some big disputes...

Progress is being made in the Air New Zealand Ground Services dispute after a new process and timeline for dealing with the airline’s outsourcing proposal was confirmed on...

This week’s takeover of Qantas by Macquarie Bank and United States private equity firm, Texas Pacific Group, could spell trouble for workers here and across the Tasman. The...

The National Party’s 90 Day No-Rights Bill was finally defeated last week when Parliament voted it down on its second reading. In the final vote, the bill was...