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Postal workers want 5% pay rise
Friday, 5 May 2006, 2:28 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Thousands of postal workers have today launched a campaign for a five per cent pay rise with a rally outside the Auckland Mail Centre. More >>
Labour bill will ‘bog down the labour market’
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 2:37 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The National Party’s proposed no-rights-at-work law will affect up to 300,000 people a year and will bog down the labour market, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Union to take action over youth rates
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 12:29 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union is warning employers to immediately abolish youth rates, and says it will take legal action to recover money owed to thousands of people in the wake of revelations that youth wage regulations are illegal. More >>
Metals workers seek 7% pay rise
Monday, 1 May 2006, 1:27 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The country’s largest union is claiming a seven per cent pay rise for workers covered by the influential Metals agreement. More >>
140 jobs go as McCains closes Feilding factory
Monday, 1 May 2006, 10:24 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Some 140 people will lose their jobs and many more will see their livelihood seriously affected by the closure of the McCains food processing plant in Feilding. More >>
'Give us a break,' say workers
Monday, 1 May 2006, 10:13 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Long-serving workers at an Auckland abrasives company are on strike for a decent break. More >>
Metals May Day stop-work
Monday, 1 May 2006, 10:11 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
May Day – the international day of solidarity among working people – sees the launch of the campaign to renew the country’s most influential private-sector industrial agreement. More >>
Closure threat angers Spring Creek miners
Friday, 28 April 2006, 5:18 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Miners at the Spring Creek coal mine are angry and disappointed that their future remains uncertain, despite months of hard work. More >>
Auckland airport fire-fighters on strike
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 11:08 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Fire-fighters at Auckland International Airport have just walked off the job in a dispute over pay. More >>
Workers put Mapp on 90-day warning
Sunday, 23 April 2006, 12:20 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest trade union is putting National Party industrial relations spokesman Wayne Mapp on 90 days’ notice of mass industrial protest. More >>
Fairfax's Press problems could have been avoided
Friday, 21 April 2006, 5:19 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The union that represents newspaper workers says that The Press newspaper in Christchurch might have avoided the costly and embarrassing loss of papers this week if it had kept on its electricians and engineers. More >>
Manufacturing workers to hold stop-work meetings
Thursday, 13 April 2006, 3:24 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers in the metals and manufacturing industries are gearing up for their wage round with a series of mass stop-work meetings. More >>
Journos walk out at Timaru Herald
Friday, 31 March 2006, 8:52 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Journalists at the Fairfax-owned Timaru Herald have walked off the job in a dispute over pay. More >>
Show you’re really kiwi, workers tell Air NZ
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 3:22 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Air New Zealand should put its money where its mouth is when it comes to promoting New Zealand, says the union that represents many of the airline’s workers. More >>
$12 the new bottom rate, says union
Monday, 27 March 2006, 4:16 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union is setting a new minimum wage rate target of $12 an hour. Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little said that lifting base wage rates to at least $12 an hour was now one of the union’s main ... More >>
5% campaign continues in face of bosses’ pay rises
Friday, 17 March 2006, 3:16 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Latest figures showing that chief executives’ pay rose an average 5.8 per cent last year confirms that the union campaign for a five per cent pay rise for working people is bang-on, says the country’s largest union. More >>
EPMU Nat. Sec. Andrew Little Speech To EMA
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 9:33 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Thank you for the welcome you have afforded my colleague, Bill Newson, and me, and for the opportunity to speak this morning. This opportunity is an important one. So often, the representatives of organised labour and those of employers exchange ... More >>
Youth workers win full pay at BP stations
Friday, 10 March 2006, 3:52 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and BP Oil have agreed to wipe youth rates from the 90 BP-owned service stations throughout New Zealand, benefiting hundreds of young workers. More >>
Kiwi Saver good, but bosses should chip in
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 11:53 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The country’s largest union says that the Kiwi Saver retirement savings scheme introduced to Parliament today is a good step for workers, but that employers should be making contributions. More >>
‘Yes’ vote great news
Friday, 24 February 2006, 10:06 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
A new ballot of engineering workers at Air New Zealand’s Christchurch base is being welcomed by their colleagues in the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing. More >>
