News from 2008

masport strike More than seventy EPMU and Moulders Union members at Masport are taking strike action in protest at the iconic company's below-inflation pay offer of 3%....

The EPMU has expressed sincere condolences to the New Zealand families who lost loved ones in the Air New Zealand Airbus 320 tragedy. The tragedy claimed...

Workers at electrical lines company Unison have secured a 7% pay increase for 18 months and consolidated two collective agreements into one document. The 90 EPMU members...

Workers at Interwaste will vote on a settlement offer from the company on Friday afternoon. The settlement offer has come out of mediation this week and follows...

Print delegates and officials met by video conference on Tuesday to discuss issues faced by the print industry during the economic recession. The focus was on the...

New workplace laws introduced into the Australian Parliament last week mark a historic turning point to restoring workers' rights after a decade of attacks by the former Coalition...

The Council of Trade Unions is calling on the incoming Government to re-jig its tax cut proposals to provide a more balanced package. CTU economist Peter Conway...

Business New Zealand has advised the new National/ACT government to take an axe to workers' rights and the union movement with a series of extreme policy recommendations...

The EPMU is concerned at the National/Act government's apparent plan to rapidly increase ACC levies and believes it is unjustified. The move would see the ACC earners...

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...