News from 2008-07

The EPMU has criticised National's employment policy released yesterday as an attack on work rights that would drive down the wages of all New Zealand workers. Major changes...

The first of the EPMU's 25 Work Rights Wage Drive rallies kicks off in Christchurch next Friday at Addington raceway. The mass member rallies will be...

The Employers and Manufacturers Association has launched an advertising campaign attacking changes to Kiwisaver that would protect workers from getting ripped off by their employers. The changes involve closing...

Workers at Premier Bacon in Carterton have more than doubled union membership and won major increases in pay and conditions by standing together and sticking to their...

The EPMU says pressure for higher wages will continue following the announcement that the cost of living rose by 4% in the year to June. This increase in...

The National Party has officially announced it would open ACC to competition if elected this year, effectively throwing open workplace rehabilitation and compensation to insurance companies. EPMU national secretary...

Nationwide ratification meetings for the New Zealand Post terms of settlement finish this Friday and results are expected to be known by Monday afternoon. While the details of...

PM Helen Clark talks to workers at Ezibuy Prime Minister Helen Clark dropped in at Ezibuy's Palmerston North site last Wednesday to pay a visit to...

Union delegates from Fairfax newspapers met with Fairfax's project management team this week to discuss the company's proposal to centralise its subediting operations. Under the Fairfax proposal subediting...

The EPMU will hold 25 mass rallies across New Zealand in August as part of its Work Rights Wage Drive campaign launched on Tuesday, July 1. The...