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Metals dispute is political - union
Wednesday, 17 March 2004, 1:29 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union says that employers in the manufacturing sector are being used as pawns in political battle. More >>
Moves to protect workers’ money welcome - union
Monday, 15 March 2004, 5:01 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union is welcoming plans to increase the amount of workers’ money protected when companies collapse, but says that it comes too late to help hundreds of Qantas New Zealand workers. More >>
Enough, say Air NZ engineers
Friday, 12 March 2004, 3:30 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Engineers at Air New Zealand say they will not accept company plans to cut their shift-work pay and drastically change their working hours. More >>
No settlements below 3.5%, says union
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 5:01 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union says that it will not settle any agreements with wage rises of less than 3 ½ per cent until the Metals agreement is settled. More >>
Manufacturing workers plan major stopwork
Friday, 27 February 2004, 1:52 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers in the manufacturing sector are planning major stopwork meetings in protest at the breakdown of talks in the key Metals and Manufacturing Industries Collective Agreement. More >>
Media Advisory: Bargaining in The Metals
Monday, 23 February 2004, 5:09 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Metals and Manufacturing Industries Collective Agreement (known as The Metals) is New Zealand’s largest private-sector multi-employer collective agreement. The current document covers more than 2000 workers at more than 200 companies, and is ... More >>
Pressure on for better wages
Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 4:38 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Hundreds of manufacturing workers meeting in Auckland today echoed the views of their colleagues in Wellington and the South Island in saying that they are ready to fight for a decent pay rise. More >>
Manufacturing workers plan industrial strategy
Tuesday, 10 February 2004, 2:15 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Momentum is building in the country’s most significant industrial round, with hundreds of workers due to stop work in Auckland tomorrow. More >>
Labour Law Must Give Real Choice
Thursday, 5 February 2004, 1:38 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
A new poll that shows most New Zealanders believe that employers and employees should negotiate over wages and conditions is absolutely right, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Treat journalists evenly - union
Thursday, 5 February 2004, 1:38 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The journalists’ union, the EPMU, says that any rules on media access at Waitangi’s Te Tii marae should be applied evenly. More >>
Historic mass stopwork in Wellington
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 3:05 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
More than 400 workers from metals and mixed manufacturing plants around Wellington gathered in Petone today for the biggest industrial stopwork meetings seen in Wellington since 1991. More >>
Workers hold mass meeting over agreement
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 4:47 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Hundreds of workers from the metals and manufacturing industries will gather in Wellington tomorrow to discuss industry-wide bargaining. More >>
Two major employment cases return to court Feb 16
Tuesday, 3 February 2004, 9:28 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The hearing into a legal challenge by six unions against Air New Zealand’s proposal to test its workforce for drugs and alcohol will resume in the Employment Court in Auckland. More >>
Union joins call for more people to go into trades
Tuesday, 27 January 2004, 12:34 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The country’s largest trade union is endorsing calls by the Tertiary Education Commission for more young people to consider trade training instead of going to university. More >>
Groundhandlers to strike over pay
Friday, 16 January 2004, 10:43 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Mt Cook Airlines tarmac staff in Queenstown have issued notice of strike action, saying they could earn more working in a hotel. More >>
Free hostages, say journos
Thursday, 18 December 2003, 4:34 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand journalists are joining international calls to free two journalists being held hostage in Aceh. More >>
Survey wake-up call to respect workers – union
Wednesday, 17 December 2003, 12:09 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
News that more than half of New Zealand workers hate their boss is a wake-up call to management, says the country’s largest union. More >>
Air NZ drugs test-case back in court
Wednesday, 17 December 2003, 12:08 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Air New Zealand drugs testing case goes back to court on Friday (December 19). More >>
TV move pleases Avalon staff
Tuesday, 9 December 2003, 11:39 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Staff at TVNZ’s Avalon studio are welcoming news that the Good Morning programme is to move back to Wellington. More >>
ERA review a "first step"
Thursday, 4 December 2003, 12:19 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
New Zealand’s largest union today congratulated the Government on proposed changes to the Employment Relations Act which will protect some of the most vulnerable workers in society, but says it will continue campaigning over freeloaders and industry-wide ... More >>
