Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union - Latest News [Page 26]
Strike hits CHH Whangarei plant
Friday, 16 September 2005, 11:35 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at the Carter Holt Harvey LVL plant in Whangarei are on strike and demonstrating in the city as a national pay campaign intensifies. More >>
Redundancies at Pacific Aerospace
Friday, 16 September 2005, 12:02 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Forty-five workers at Pacific Aerospace Corporation in Hamilton will be laid off at 9am tomorrow. More >>
Queenstown airport workers set to strike
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 4:48 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Groundstaff at Queenstown airport are to strike after mediation today failed to settle their pay dispute. More >>
Update On Media Union Nationwide Disputes
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 11:52 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Waikato Times (Fairfax): Workers have voted to settle a dispute that saw strikes at the paper last month. Agreement includes a five per cent pay rise and a $1400 lump-sum payment for journalists graded J6 and upwards. Journalists graded J5 and ... More >>
Newspaper pay disputes spread
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 9:34 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The industrial problems that have hit our biggest media outlets have now spread to some of the country’s smallest newspapers. More >>
CHH workers hold second day-of-action
Monday, 12 September 2005, 9:12 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Angry Carter Holt Harvey workers are gathering outside the Carter Holt Harvey head office in Manukau as a second national day of industrial action gets under way. More >>
Lock-out at Wgtn engineering plant
Friday, 9 September 2005, 11:55 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little said that the workers were locked out of the plant in Seaview, Wellington, this morning. More >>
EPMU Statement On Brethren Situation
Friday, 9 September 2005, 9:36 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
There has been much media attention in the past few days over the involvement of a group of Exclusive Brethren in commissioning and printing political brochures. More >>
Union defends journalists
Friday, 9 September 2005, 8:37 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The union that represents journalists is tonight condemning comments by National Party leader Don Brash suggesting political bias among journalists who are union members. More >>
Auckland workers join strike at Southward
Monday, 5 September 2005, 4:14 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at Southward Engineering’s Auckland plant have joined a strike by their Wellington colleagues. More >>
Engineering co dispute escalates
Monday, 5 September 2005, 11:21 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
A dispute at a major New Zealand engineering company is escalating, with the company locking out workers this morning. More >>
Privatised ACC bad for workers
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 3:27 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The National Party’s privatisation agenda will put accident compensation for hundreds of thousands of workers at risk, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. More >>
Nats ‘have no cred’ on apprenticeships
Thursday, 1 September 2005, 3:26 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The National Party’s sudden commitment to apprenticeships and trade training has no credibility, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Fairfax result partly due to the workers
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 9:13 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Australian-based John Fairfax Holdings Ltd, whose New Zealand interests include the Dominion-Post, Waikato Times, The Press and Sunday Star-Times newspapers, today announced profits of $A237 million, up more than 23 per cent on the previous year. More >>
Picket outside Dom-Post
Monday, 29 August 2005, 10:54 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Dominion-Post building in downtown Wellington is being picketed by newspaper workers angry at their employer’s refusal to give them a five per cent pay rise. More >>
Plastics workers to vote on pay offer
Friday, 26 August 2005, 4:30 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers in the plastics industry will hold meetings over the next few days to decide whether to accept a pay offer from their employers. More >>
Trans-Tasman APN dispute
Friday, 26 August 2005, 2:47 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
A dispute at APN newspapers in New Zealand is about to spread across the Tasman. More >>
Waikato Times strike continues
Friday, 26 August 2005, 11:05 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Waikato Times journalists continue their strike today for an across-the-board five per cent pay rise. More >>
Waikato Times journos strike
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 2:57 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Waikato Times journalists are on strike over their employer’s refusal to agree to five per cent across-the-board pay increase. More >>
Fuji-Xerox strike
Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 10:15 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Photocopier technicians at Fuji-Xerox are on strike in protest over a lack of progress in their pay negotiations. More >>