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Industrial Action at Fairfax - Journalists Strike
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 8:30 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Journalists and circulation workers are picketing the Suburban Newspapers headquarters in Auckland, while workers at the chain’s Wellington community newspapers are into their second day of strike action. More >>
5% win at Irwins
Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 3:58 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at the Irwin Industrial Tools plant in Warkworth are the latest to win a five per cent pay rise. More >>
Postal workers not surprised at job losses
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 9:27 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
News that New Zealand Post is likely to shed some 550 jobs over the next five years is no real surprise to postal workers, says the union that represents 98 per cent of them. More >>
Workers Ban Overtime at JNL
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 4:06 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
After months of negotiations National Distribution Union and Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Juken Nissho NZ Ltd are taking industrial action in the form of overtime bans to win a wage claim of 5% for 15 months. Four sites ... More >>
Fair Share delivers record wage rises
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 3:29 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
News that wages are growing at the fastest rate since records began is evidence of what workers can achieve when they stick together, says the union behind the Fair Share – Five in ’05 campaign. More >>
48-hour strike at Kinleith mill
Monday, 7 November 2005, 3:39 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Two hundred and seventy production workers at the Carter Holt Harvey-owned Kinleith pulp and paper mill near Tokoroa are on strike in protest over an inadequate pay offer and the company’s plans to cut holidays. More >>
Rod Donald was a ‘friend of the house of labour’
Sunday, 6 November 2005, 6:20 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union is shocked and saddened by the sudden death today of Green Party co-leader Rod Donald, saying that in his passing it has lost a friend. More >>
APN ordered to pay for bungled redundancy
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 4:43 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Newspaper publisher Australian Provincial Newspapers has been ordered to pay compensation in the wake of a bungled redundancy. More >>
No kids at work, says Fairfax
Monday, 31 October 2005, 12:38 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at the Fairfax-owned Hutt News in Wellington will stage industrial action from 3pm today in protest over the company’s sudden refusal to allow children to come into the workplace. More >>
Plastics workers strike over pay
Thursday, 27 October 2005, 9:44 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
A North Shore plastics company’s refusal to pay the going rate has prompted workers to walk out the door. More >>
EPMU Election Materials
Thursday, 27 October 2005, 9:42 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Some election materials distributed by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has been the subject of complaint. More >>
Air NZ engineers shattered by job losses
Wednesday, 19 October 2005, 4:09 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Air New Zealand engineers are shattered to learn that 600 of them could lose their jobs. The company today announced that it proposes making 600 of the 2100 engineers redundant in July next year. More >>
Industrial action puts $9m in workers’ pockets
Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 1:20 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Industrial action over the past quarter has put an extra $9 million in the pockets of working people, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Santas picket newspaper
Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 11:44 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
All they want for Christmas is a five per cent pay rise – and they’re taking to the streets to say so. More >>
Wages campaign not driving inflation
Monday, 17 October 2005, 2:13 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The latest consumer price index, out today, shows that wage pressure is having little impact on inflation, says the union leading the Fair Share – Five in ’05 wages campaign. More >>
Industrial update – October 17, 2005
Monday, 17 October 2005, 2:11 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
1. Talks are under way in Whangarei with representatives of the new majority shareholder in Carter Holt Harvey, the Rank Group, over the pay dispute at the CHH lumber veneer plant at Marsden Pt. An update will be issued when the union is in a position to ... More >>
Striking CHH workers to return to work
Monday, 17 October 2005, 10:00 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Two hundred workers from the Carter Holt Harvey laminated veneer plant in Whangarei are to return to work in preparation for new talks next week. More >>
Challenges face Air NZ CEO
Friday, 14 October 2005, 5:03 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The union that represents airline workers welcomes Rob Fyfe as the new chief executive of Air New Zealand. More >>
Public support is amazing, say telecoms workers
Friday, 14 October 2005, 2:10 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
About 400 Transfield employees around the country are taking industrial action today over what they say is an insulting pay offer of two per cent. More >>
Fairfax workers strike again
Friday, 14 October 2005, 12:39 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at the Fairfax-owned Kapiti Observer are on strike again today as their pay dispute drags on. More >>
