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CTU Welcomes Canterbury Health and Safety Funding
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 2:26 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The CTU is welcoming the Government's commitment to fund a dedicated health and safety programme targeting the Canterbury rebuild. $10.7 million over the next four years is being allocated to the Canterbury programme as part of Government's Working Safer ... More >>
Unions launch Fairness at Work campaign
Monday, 22 July 2013, 3:15 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has today launched a major campaign opposing the Government's cuts to employment rights. At the launch in Auckland, Helen Kelly announced unions will hold stop work meetings in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch ... More >>
Affordability key issue in funding Auckland’s transport
Monday, 15 July 2013, 3:46 pm | Council of Trade Unions
“Affordability is a key issue to come out of the recommendations of the Consensus Building Group (CBG) on Auckland Transport Funding,” said CBG member Robert Reid. More >>
CTU welcomes moves on new Health and Safety Agency
Friday, 12 July 2013, 12:19 pm | Council of Trade Unions
CTU today welcomes the appointment of Ross Wilson, a tireless advocate for health and safety, to the Establishment Board of the planned new Crown agent, WorkSafe New Zealand. More >>
Minister misleads Select Committee about forestry safety
Friday, 28 June 2013, 2:30 pm | Council of Trade Unions
CTU President Helen Kelly has today written to the Chair of the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee, Hon. David Bennett, to express concern that the Committee received a misleading report from the Minister of Labour in regards a visit she accompanied ... More >>
Action to Protect Migrant Workers Overdue
Sunday, 23 June 2013, 1:07 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The Council of Trade Unions has today welcomed Government announcements to penalise employers of migrant workers in certain circumstances and also provide migrant workers with greater protection if they raise a claim of exploitation. More >>
Economic growth still benefiting only a few
Friday, 21 June 2013, 3:41 pm | Council of Trade Unions
“Growth in the economy in the March quarter was weaker than expected at 0.3 percent, and too many people are still missing out on what growth we are seeing,” says Bill Rosenberg, CTU Economist. More >>
Strike busting law proposed by National MP
Thursday, 13 June 2013, 1:42 pm | Council of Trade Unions
CTU says that Jami-Lee Ross' Employment Relations (Continuity of Labour) Bill that would allow casual workers to be employed during a strike specifically as strike busters is another attack on collective bargaining and would reduce wages. More >>
Bill to cut workers’ pay in Parliament
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 4:34 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The CTU is disappointed that the government law to make it easier to cut workers’ pay and conditions, and remove vulnerable workers protection will have its First Reading in Parliament tonight. More >>
Health Budget on track for a $100m shortfall
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 1:20 pm | Council of Trade Unions
A pre-Budget analysis of government health expenditure prepared by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and released today, estimates that if last year’s increase in Vote Health was repeated this year, there will be an almost $100 million shortfall ... More >>
Aim should be jobs for all
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 1:16 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The Council of Trade Unions says that while the drop of 15,000 in the number of people who are unemployed is welcome, we are still a long way off from returning to the low levels of unemployment in 2008. More >>
Don't Hit First Home and Low Income House Buyers
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 9:04 am | Council of Trade Unions
"The CTU welcomes the Reserve Bank's decision to begin using macro-prudential policies with its announcement that it will require banks to have higher capital requirements for loans with lower deposits", says CTU Economist Bill Rosenberg. More >>
Wages need to rise faster
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 12:49 pm | Council of Trade Unions
"Wage rises are disappointingly slow given the economy now appears to be growing", says CTU Economist Bill Rosenberg. "It is good to see wages rising faster than prices, but labour productivity growth is strong given slow growth in hours worked ... More >>
CTU Supports Tourism Awareness Campaign on Fiji
Sunday, 5 May 2013, 12:28 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The Council of Trade Unions is supporting a campaign to raise awareness among potential tourists of the reality of life in Fiji. Peter Conway, of the CTU says “Fiji is a military dictatorship and far from the paradise portrayed in tourism brochures”. More >>
CTU urges Government to implement Taskforce report in full
Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 3:16 pm | Council of Trade Unions
CTU President Helen Kelly says “the Health and Safety Taskforce report released today is a thorough, well researched and compelling message to all of us that we are not doing enough to keep our workers safe.” More >>
Employment Relations Bill Will Cut Workers' Pay
Friday, 26 April 2013, 11:45 am | Council of Trade Unions
CTU Media Release 26 April 2013 Employment Relations Bill Will Cut Workers’ Pay The Bill introduced today to destroy collective bargaining is a direct attack on the wages and conditions of those who go to work every day in this country. Helen ... More >>
Ministry's treatment of forest death shabby
Friday, 19 April 2013, 2:28 pm | Council of Trade Unions
Shane Philip Frater, 28, died on 1 May 2009 in a forestry block near Te Pohue, off the Napier-Taupo Rd, when he was hit by a branch of a tree as it slid down a hillside. "Despite the Department of Labour carrying out the investigation it now has ... More >>
Maximum penalties not enough for Pike River Directors
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 4:13 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The CTU welcomes the guilty verdict against Pike River Coal Ltd and calls for a law change to make company directors liable where their company was negligent. More >>
Lower power prices good for families
Thursday, 18 April 2013, 1:38 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The CTU welcomes new thinking from the Labour and Green Parties today to reduce power prices. It is long overdue. Bill Rosenberg, CTU Economist says "New Zealand residential electricity consumers have suffered from the reliance on an electricity 'market' ... More >>
Health Minister needs to engage on professional issues
Monday, 8 April 2013, 9:36 am | Council of Trade Unions
CTU says the Minister of Health needs to engage in serious professional issues raised in a paper from the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists presented at the Australian Medical Association Meeting over the weekend rather than dismiss them ... More >>
