News from 2008-11

EPMU members at Electricity Ashburton ratified a one year deal for a 6% pay rise on Friday. EPMU organiser Kelvin Ellis says the deal shows the high demand...

The EPMU has welcomed the establishment of a taskforce on productivity and says strong workplace relations and decent training are essential elements to any long term improvement. The call...

EPMU members at Air New Zealand-owned company Zeal spent yesterday and today in negotiations for their first EPMU collective agreement. The 270 members, who work as cabin crew...

Rakon has announced it will be cutting 45 jobs in its Auckland manufacturing plant as the global economic downturn hits the company's export contracts. The job losses will...

We're trialling Facebook as a way of communicating with and organising EPMU members. As part of this we've set up an EPMU Facebook group so that all EPMU...

Workers from New Zealand's polytechnics and universities have formed a new united tertiary education union to increase their impact in the sector. The new Tertiary Education Union (TEU)...

The dispute at Interwaste will enter mediation after the company accepted a union offer to avert strike action. The five EPMU members at Interwaste have been involved...

If you worked in a freezing works back in the 1970s you may be owed money by the National Provident Fund. The fund has unclaimed money...

The general election ended last Saturday night with a convincing victory by the National Party. They have very quickly been able to pull together a governing coalition with...

Workers at Carter Holt Harvey's Putaruru mill will be finishing up on December 12th but have all either taken early redundancy, secured jobs at the expanding plywood factory...