News from 2009-08

Up to 900 Telecom lines engineers will be taking nationwide strike action on Monday to protest Telecom's attacks on their incomes and employment rights. The strike...

An estimated four out of five New Zealanders have no redundancy protection, but that all could change if Labour MP Darien Fenton's private member's bill to introduce...

The EPMU has won a major victory in the Court of Appeal against employers who use strikebreaking labour to undermine industrial action. The Court of Appeal last...

EPMU members at New Zealand Post's largest subsidiary, ECL, voted for industrial action this week after pay talks broke down. The industrial action, which has begun with a...

null The Winter 2009 issue of The Metal has been printed and should be in members' letterboxes by now. The new edition includes stories on the...

News that Lower Hutt buggy manufacturer Tritec will be laying off 45 staff without redundancy compensation shows the urgent need for all parties to support Darien Fenton's Redundancy...

Telecom lines engineers will begin a second round of nationwide strike action tomorrow over their employers' refusal to offer redundancy protection at a time of uncertainty in the...