News from 2009-09

Redundant Telecom lines engineers and their families and friends will be gathering outside the Ellerslie Events Centre at 9am on Thursday the 1st to picnic and to protest...

The second round of EPMU delegate forums kicked off this week in Wellington with the focus on the union's current campaigns, recruitment and the role of delegates...

More than 40 migrant lines engineers who were laid off during the Visionstream transfer are struggling to get by while they wait for the company's permanent employment agreement...

Staff at the Sunday News are pushing to gain coverage under the Sunday Star-Times collective agreement following a successful recruitment drive that's seen union membership increase to 90%. Both...

The Employment Court ruled on Friday that the six week lockout notice issued by Open Country Cheese to members of the Dairy Workers Union was unlawful. This followed...

The National Distribution Union has reached agreement with Bridgeman Concrete settling a collective agreement and ending a nine day lockout. The dispute was further inflamed this week when...

The EPMU has joined 14 other unions, political parties and community groups in the "Fair Deal in Hard Times" campaign to back Darien Fenton's Redundancy Protection Bill and...

Up to 300 more Telecom lines engineers have made redundant in the last two weeks as Telecom's new contractor, Visionstream, attempts to take over operations in Northland and...

Currently Telecom is telling the public and the media that everything is going smoothly as Visionstream takes over the patches. We know from the stories we're getting...

Bridgeman Concrete's decision to lock out its workers indefinitely shows increasing employer militancy taking advantage of the recession and growing unemployment, says the National Distribution Union. NDU secretary Robert...