News from 2008

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  • Tritec workers picket for redundancy pay
  • 22 December, 2008

    Workers at Lower Hutt mountain buggy manufacturer Tritec are taking protest action to get redundancy payments locked into their collective agreement after the company announced 25 redundancies on...

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  • Masport dispute settles
  • 11 December, 2008

    Striking EPMU and Moulders Union members at Masport Foundries Ltd have voted to accept an improved pay offer from the company and will be returning to work...

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  • Tritec workers protest for redundancy
  • 10 December, 2008

    Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Lower Hutt manufacturer Tritec will be picketing the premises at 3:45pm this afternoon after the company announced it will be laying...

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  • Masport workers strike
  • 5 December, 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%....

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  • Interwaste members to vote on offer
  • 5 December, 2008

    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...

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  • Masport workers strike
  • 4 December, 2008

    More than seventy Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Moulders Union members at Masport are taking strike action in protest at the iconic company's below-inflation pay offer of...

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  • Redundancies at Rakon
  • 27 November, 2008

    Rakon has announced it will be cutting 45 jobs in its Auckland manufacturing plant as the global economic downturn hits the company's export contracts. The job losses will...

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  • Interwaste dispute enters mediation
  • 27 November, 2008

    The dispute at Interwaste will enter mediation after the company accepted a union offer to avert strike action. The five EPMU members at Interwaste have been involved...

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  • Productivity debate must include workers
  • 18 November, 2008

    The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union welcomes the establishment of a taskforce on productivity and says strong workplace relations and decent training are essential elements to any long...

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  • Interwaste workers not ruling out further strike action
  • 14 November, 2008

    EPMU members at Interwaste in Auckland are not ruling out further industrial action after the airport waste management company rebuffed a settlement offer from the union this week. The...

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