News from 2010-09

Meetings on Wednesday 20 October to discuss union business are being called in Auckland and Wellington. The Auckland meeting will be held at the TelstraClear Pacific Stadium starting...

The Government's unfair changes to employment relations laws are about giving employers control over the choices workers would otherwise be free to make and will do nothing...

Around 2,000 EPMU members made individual written submissions opposing National's proposed unfair changes to employment laws out of a total of an estimated 6,000 submitters. "The EPMU also made...

New Zealand's largest private sector union, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU), presented a cheque for $10,000 to the Mayors' Relief Fund today to assist the region...

The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) has released a UMR survey which shows that 80% of New Zealanders oppose the Government's planned changes to dismissal law. The CTU...

Members of the EPMU at Vector Taranaki's Kapuni Gas Treatment Plant have agreed a ten percent pay rise over the next two years. "EPMU members at Vector Taranaki's...

The deadline for making comments on the government's law changes that will take away longstanding employment rights is only 10 days away, and the EPMU is asking...

Revelations that the government's employment law changes are being pushed by the Act party surfaced in the media last week. The NZ Herald also reported that new requirements...

The long-running dispute between striking Waihi gold miners and HWE Mining Pty Ltd was settled last week with 55 miners in the EPMU winning a pay increase...

Hercules upgrade announcement welcome The EPMU welcomed this week's news that the Government and L3 Communications have reached agreement on completing the Air Force's C130 Hercules aircraft Life...