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Solid Energy ‘out of touch with workers’
Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 9:52 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Solid Energy’s claims that the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is “irresponsible” shows the company has failed to recognise its workers’ issues says the union. More >>
Plastics workers fight wage freeze
Monday, 9 November 2009, 3:06 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Three hundred plastics industry workers have started nationwide industrial action including go slows and overtime bans today after their employers attempted to impose a wage freeze. The workers are negotiating the Plastics Multi Employer Collective ... More >>
Productivity shows benefit of worker involvement
Friday, 6 November 2009, 11:23 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Patience and Nicholson have voted unanimously to accept a new skills-based pay system developed as part of a company/worker project. The new system is linked with national training standards ... More >>
Cryovac workers beat wage freeze decree
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 3:50 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Cryovac Sealed Air in Porirua have beaten a company-imposed wage freeze, winning a 2% pay rise as a result of industrial action. The industrial action involved 130 workers at the packaging company, and ... More >>
Solid Energy mines fall silent as 1000 strike
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 1:27 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Workers at Solid Energy’s Spring Creek mine have joined workers at the SOE’s other three big mines in strike action and picketing today, bringing the total number of workers locked out or on strike to nearly one thousand, says the Engineering, ... More >>
ACC privatisation could cost workers $200m/year
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 5:07 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union says National’s decision to privatise the ACC Work Account is a cynical move that will transfer up to $200 million a year from workers to the Australian insurance industry. More >>
MCK workers strike over redundancy clawback
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 1:49 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
165 Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members began strike action at MCK metals in Taranaki this morning after the company attempted to cut redundancy for new workers by 34 weeks. More >>
ACC cuts a needless attack on working Kiwis
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 3:31 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Government’s decision to hike ACC levies and cut entitlements is a needless and cynical attack on New Zealand workers, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. The changes follow a systematic campaign by the government to portray ACC’s ... More >>
ACC figures misleading - independent review needed
Monday, 12 October 2009, 12:38 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is calling for an independent review of figures used by ACC Minister Nick Smith to signal cuts to ACC coverage and hiking of levies. The union says Nick Smith has falsely portrayed ACC as being in a state ... More >>
Tariff extensions welcome - EPMU
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 4:26 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union welcomes the Government’s decision to extend current import tariff levels until at least 2015. More >>
Laid off Telecom workers protest AGM - EPMU
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 3:18 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Around 250 redundant Telecom lines engineers and supporters protested outside the Telecom AGM this morning calling on the company to fix the mess caused by its dependent contracting model. More >>
Quit the dirty tricks & get to the table, Telecom
Monday, 21 September 2009, 9:53 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has called on the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Steven Joyce, to organise a meeting between the union, Telecom and its new contractor, Visionstream, to fix the problems the ... More >>
200 Telecom workers laid off tomorrow - EPMU
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 4:21 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Up to 200 Telecom lines engineers will be made redundant tomorrow as Telecom’s new contractor, Visionstream, attempts to take over operations in Northland and most of Auckland including the city’s CBD, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing ... More >>
EPMU backs Redundancy Protection Bill
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 5:24 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has joined 14 other unions, political parties and community groups in the “Fair Deal in Hard Times” campaign to back Darien Fenton’s Redundancy Protection Bill and will be mobilising its members in ... More >>
Waged offer shows Visionstream is failing - EPMU
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 11:30 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Telecom’s new Auckland and Northland contractor, Visionstream, has started advertising paid permanent positions for lines engineers through Work and Income – a development that shows they are not able to meet their obligations to Telecom using their dependent ... More >>
Bus workers will report despite lock-out threat
Monday, 7 September 2009, 5:44 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
More than a thousand Auckland bus workers facing being locked out in a row over 10 cents an hour say they will report for work as usual on Wednesday morning. Infratil-owned NZ Bus has told the workers, including 875 drivers, that they will be barred from ... More >>
Zeal 320 crew achieve pay rise
Monday, 31 August 2009, 4:14 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
After nearly a year of negotiations, Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union members at Air New Zealand subsidiary Zeal 320 have overwhelmingly voted to accept a settlement with the company. More >>
Telecom’s change of plan a sign of desperation
Monday, 31 August 2009, 2:36 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The EPMU says Telecom’s decision to bring forward the transition of Auckland and Northland work to Visionstream by three weeks is a sign of desperation as fault repair times blow out and workers continue to refuse to sign over to Visionstream. The announcement ... More >>
Visionstream claims don’t match the figures - EPMU
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 12:40 pm | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
Visionstream’s claims that lines engineers wouldn’t face a drop in income under its contract don’t match the figures, says the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. More >>
Telecom CEO payment shows culture of greed
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 9:36 am | Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union
The record $5 million payment to Telecom’s CEO Paul Reynolds at the same time hundreds of frontline Telecom workers are having their livelihoods and their work rights stripped from them shows Telecom is driven by shameless greed and a complete disregard for ... More >>
