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Top apprentices mean a top future
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 5:02 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little said that the winners in the ATNZ Apprentice of the Year competition showed what could be achieved by young people determined to get on. More >>
Super campaign for super contributions
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 4:14 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will launch a major superannuation campaign off the back of the revamped KiwiSaver scheme. More >>
Mass rally brings victory
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 2:36 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Today’s 5000 worker protest in Aotea Square has delivered a political victory, with Maori Party Co-Leader Pita Sharples publicly announcing his party will vote National’s No-Rights Bill down. More >>
90 minutes to stop ninety days
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:13 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Thousand of workers will converge on Aotea square today at 12:30 for 90 minutes, in a landmark event in the new unionism. More >>
National's point-scoring just doublespeak
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 3:14 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
National’s sudden concern for the work rights of Taito Phillip Field’s Thai contractors rings hollow considering their current attempts to strip rights from tens of thousands of New Zealand workers, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. More >>
Keep it Kiwi, say workers
Monday, 14 August 2006, 3:03 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand-made means made in New Zealand, providing jobs for Kiwi workers and incomes for Kiwi families, says the union that represents manufacturing workers. More >>
Taking a stand for safe workplaces
Monday, 14 August 2006, 3:02 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers and their employers are being challenged to take workplace health and safety seriously in a bid to reduce the huge toll of workplace accidents and injuries. More >>
Workers and boobs rally coincidence
Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 3:55 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The union organising the 23 August rally against National Party legislation that would remove employment rights in the first 90 days of a new job says the Boobs on Bike parade, timed to coincide with the rally, has come out of the blue. More >>
Apprentice showing the way to lift productivity
Monday, 7 August 2006, 10:48 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Jacob Wentholt heads to Australia today (Monday) to compete in the finals of the flexographic printing apprentice of the year competition, after earlier being named New Zealand’s top printing apprentice of the year More >>
Feltex sale good news – for now
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 9:51 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at Feltex Carpets are glad they still have jobs – but are worried about their long-term futures, says the union representing the company’s maintenance workers. More >>
New job risk - is the boss up to it?
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 2:39 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
An incompetent boss is as much of a risk to workers as is an incompetent worker to employers, says the union leading the Work Rights, Our Right! campaign. Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little told members of ... More >>
Broadband ban hits Wellington
Friday, 21 July 2006, 2:48 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
A ban on the installation of new broadband connections has spread to Wellington and Horowhenua. Some 320 telephone technicians who have been involved in a pay dispute for nearly a year are refusing to install new ADSL connections. More >>
Workers tell Nats what they think
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 4:52 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers told the National Party today what they think of its no-rights-for-new-workers bill when they turned out in atrocious Wellington weather to protest outside Parliament. More >>
Most people fear Nats' workplace bill - survey
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 10:06 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Most working New Zealanders think that the National Party’s no-rights-for-new-workers bill will make it easier for bosses to get rid of people at will, and believe it will do little to help people into work, independent research shows. More >>
Most people fear Nats’ workplace bill - survey
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 3:36 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Most working New Zealanders think that the National Party’s no-rights-for-new-workers bill will make it easier for bosses to get rid of people at will, and believe it will do little to help people into work, independent research shows. More >>
Work stoppages worth it, says union secretary
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 2:36 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand workers are fighting for higher wages – and sometimes that means industrial action, says the union that launched the Fair Share – Five in ’05 campaign. More >>
We're back, union warns National
Tuesday, 18 July 2006, 12:41 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union kicks off its biennial conference today with a celebration of a triumphant two years and a determination to torpedo a National Party-led attack on working conditions. More >>
Industrial action at Southland Times
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 4:37 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at the Fairfax-owned Southland Times are on a work-to-rule over the company’s refusal to give them standard industry working conditions. Sixty editorial, production, circulation and advertising staff members are involved in the action, which began ... More >>
Action means no new broadband
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 1:51 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Industrial action by under-paid telephone technicians means that Telecom cannot provide new broadband internet connections in many parts of the country – even if it can persuade people to sign up. More >>
Trained workers save factory from fire
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 9:22 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The heroic actions of workers who saved a North Canterbury wood processing plant from fire demonstrate the vital role of workplace health and safety, says the workers’ union. More >>
