News from 2010-07

The EPMU is urging all members to attend the Council of Trade Unions' (CTU) "Fairness at Work" rallies in the main centres on Saturday 21 August. The...

Nearly 2000 engineering and manufacturing workers will have pay increases above inflation and an extra day holiday in 2011 after EPMU members voted overwhelmingly to ratify the Metals...

By Andrew Little, published in The New Zealand Herald. Changing laws doesn't create jobs and the Government's latest moves to erode workers' rights won't either. Whether it's...

It will be difficult to reassemble a team of skilled workers to upgrade Air Force Hercules aircraft after Safe Air laid off the 92 workers who were...

By Andrew Little, published by The Press. The Government's recently announced changes to employment are niggardly and nasty. They won't improve a single wage packet or create a...

The EPMU will join with the CTU and other unions in opposing National's plans to extend its 90-day ‘fire at will' unfair dismissal law to all workplaces...

The EPMU Biennial Conference 2010 was held in Mangere, Auckland, on 8-9 July. National secretary Andrew Little and national president Don Pryde presented a conference report that was...

Dave Noonan of the construction division of the Australian CFMEU reported to the EPMU Biennial Conference on the case of union member and building worker Ark Tribe....

HWE Mining Pty Ltd wants gold miners working at Newmont Waihi Gold's Favona Decline mine to endure nineteenth century Victorian working conditions by remaining underground during 11.5 hour...

Waihi gold miners in the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) are on strike today after rejecting a new three year collective contract offer from the employer, contractor...