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Metals strike called off - talks to resume
Friday, 18 March 2005, 8:40 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Tomorrow’s strike by metals workers has been called off after their employers agreed to return to the negotiating table. More >>
Chch workers to join strike
Friday, 11 March 2005, 3:48 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Metals workers in Christchurch will join their Auckland colleagues in a strike next Friday. More >>
Metals workers strike for a fair-share pay rise
Friday, 11 March 2005, 10:05 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Auckland metals industry workers will strike next week to show their employers that they are serious about a five per cent pay rise. More >>
Interest rise will fuel wages push
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 2:23 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
News that interest rates are to rise will increase workers’ determination to win a five per cent “fair share” pay rise, says the country’s largest union. More >>
EMA attempts to smash Metals will fail - union
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 1:57 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Manufacturing workers say that attempts by employers to smash the key Metals agreement will fail. More >>
Workers reject Metals pay offer
Monday, 7 March 2005, 11:25 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers have voted overwhelmingly to reject a final offer of a 3.2 per cent pay increase in the key Metals agreement. More >>
Mass stop-work in Auckland
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 4:14 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The workers, all members of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, were voting on whether to accept a final offer from employers in the key Metals agreement. More >>
Little to front up to employers
Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 12:55 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
EPMU national secretary Andrew Little will today front employers for the first time since launching the union’s Fair Share – 5 in 05 campaign on Sunday. More >>
Tax cuts are no answer – union
Monday, 28 February 2005, 5:57 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Suggestions that workers should be lobbying the Government for a tax cut in lieu of a wage rise are simply an attempt to get employers out of sharing the economic spoils, says the EPMU. More >>
Wage talks suspended No settlements under 5%
Monday, 28 February 2005, 9:33 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union today announced that it will settle no wage agreements for less than a 5 per cent pay rise. More >>
Union welcomes Nats’ U-turn on apprenticeships
Monday, 28 February 2005, 9:17 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The National Party’s call for more trade training is welcome news, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Workers Lose Patience with Tight-Fisted Employers
Monday, 28 February 2005, 8:51 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Union militancy would grow as unions followed the EPMU’s campaign for a five per cent pay rise for its members in 2005, Ross Wilson said today. More >>
Ramifications of Metals collapse
Friday, 25 February 2005, 4:26 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
A media conference will be held in Auckland on at 10.30am on Sunday to outline the ramifications of the break-down in the Metals agreement negotiations. More >>
Metals talks break down
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 3:47 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Negotiations in the key Metals and Manufacturing Industries Collective Agreement broke down at 2.30pm today. More >>
Name badges illegal - court
Friday, 18 February 2005, 3:17 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Attempts by the New Plymouth District Council to force staff to wear badges showing their full names have been ruled illegal. More >>
Mass stop-work backs wages push
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 8:59 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
More than 600 Auckland manufacturing workers have thrown their weight behind this year’s Metals agreement campaign. More >>
Manufacturing summit now urgent - union
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 4:08 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The imminent departure of Wellington’s Interlock manufacturing plant for China is a wake-up call for New Zealand to take a serious look at the future of manufacturing in this country, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Union launches campaign on wage rates
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 11:23 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
In a column for members published on the Newsday site today, Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little outlines a plan for a campaign to push up wages in the manufacturing sector, including industrial action if necessary. More >>
National buying a fight over penals
Thursday, 13 January 2005, 3:47 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The National Party’s threat to remove workers’ rights to be paid time-and-a-half on public holidays will cost it at the ballot box, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Appeal Court dismisses NZ Herald case
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 8:38 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by NZ Herald publisher Australian Provincial Newspapers, confirming an Employment Court ruling that union members may not leave a collective agreement while it is in force. More >>
