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Unions agree to recommend ratification
Monday, 26 July 2010, 9:32 am | Joint Media Statement
Tomorrow, Tuesday 27th July GO Wellington and Valley Flyer bus services will be disrupted between 11am to 2.30pm to allow members of the Wellington Tramways and Manufacturing and Construction Workers Unions to consider the company’s offer of a new Collective ... More >>
Local Government Elections Nominations Open
Thursday, 22 July 2010, 10:48 am | Joint Media Statement
This week, nominations open for candidates wanting to stand in this year’s local authority elections. More >>
Northland Minerals and Research Investigation
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 1:53 pm | Joint Media Statement
Today’s announcement that the Government will contribute more than $2 million to an aeromagnetic minerals survey in Northland has been welcomed by the Far North District and Northland Regional Councils. More >>
Meat Sector Launches Sector Strategy Project
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 11:43 am | Joint Media Statement
The initiation of the meat sector strategy is a critical step towards improved profitability within the sector, according to project Co-chairs Meat Industry Association (MIA) Chairman, Bill Falconer and Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Chairman, Mike Petersen. More >>
Principals’ bargaining “painfully slow”
Friday, 16 July 2010, 3:05 pm | Joint Media Statement
Secondary principal representatives have returned from two days of bargaining their collective agreement frustrated and disappointed. More >>
Labour Gets Otahuhu its Liquor Ban
Wednesday, 14 July 2010, 10:52 am | Joint Media Statement
Auckland City Council’s City Development Committee has approved liquor bans of 24 hours a day, seven days a week (24/7) for all Otahuhu parks and reserves, contrary to recommendations by Council officers. More >>
Future Whau and Portage Candidates Announced
Tuesday, 13 July 2010, 11:59 am | Joint Media Statement
The Future West and City Vision teams have selected the candidates they wish to stand in the Whau Ward for the Auckland Council elections in October under the banner " Future Whau ". More >>
Paper Reclaim & NDU Agreement Reached
Friday, 9 July 2010, 3:15 pm | Joint Media Statement
The group of twenty-five workers who were taking strike action at Paper Reclaim Limited over wage issues has this morning returned to work following agreement between the company and the National Distribution Union. More >>
NZBIO and MTANZ to collaborate more closely
Friday, 9 July 2010, 1:54 pm | Joint Media Statement
New Zealand’s bio-enterprises will benefit from an agreement between NZBIO and the Medical Technology Association of New Zealand (MTANZ) to work more closely together. More >>
Local Company Gives Charity a Boost!
Monday, 24 May 2010, 12:33 pm | Joint Media Statement
Skylight and HomeTech Solatube today announced a new partnership between the two organisations that will see HomeTech Solatube make a donation to Skylight Charitable Trust for every Solatube Daylighting System sold. More >>
Regulation Robs Vets, Producers of Animal Meds
Monday, 10 May 2010, 12:49 pm | Joint Media Statement
Farmers, vets, and manufacturers of animal medicines are calling for vet medicines to be exempted from the Hazardous Substance and New Organisms Act (HSNO), currently under review. More >>
Waikato-Tainui And EW Share Vision Of Clean River
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 1:00 pm | Joint Media Statement
Waikato-Tainui and Environment Waikato came together around the council’s policy-making table yesterday to start discussions about how to achieve the shared vision of a clean and healthy Waikato River. More >>
Govt torpedoes own flagship water reform group
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 2:17 pm | Joint Media Statement
Five leading environmental and outdoor recreation groups said today that the Government legislation on water conservation orders passed yesterday under urgency has sent a torpedo into the Government-backed national forum working on water management reform. More >>
Dublin Port Dispute Resolved
Friday, 19 February 2010, 10:57 am | Joint Media Statement
The Dublin Port dispute has been resolved by negotiation, the parties involved announced today. The long running dispute ended this morning when SIPTU officials signed a negotiated agreement, the terms of which had been voted for by workers at the port. More >>
Labour And Greens: Meetings On Super City Bill
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 10:27 am | Joint Media Statement
27 January 2009 Media Statement Labour and Greens to run public meetings on super city bill Labour and the Greens are to run a series of public meetings across Auckland to encourage people to make parliamentary submissions on the flawed and undemocratic ... More >>
Regional Council and DoC to talk the walks
Friday, 22 January 2010, 10:05 am | Joint Media Statement
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and the Hawke’s Bay Department of Conservation office are bringing back the popular summer walk and talk series, starting with a wander around Ahuriri estuary at the end of this month. The first walk on Sunday 31 January ... More >>
Transport Minister opens Newmarket Train Station
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 9:39 am | Joint Media Statement
The Minister of Transport, Steven Joyce, will join an array of Auckland dignitaries including Local Government Minister Rodney Hide and the Mayor of Auckland, John Banks, to officially open a state of the art new Newmarket train station at a special celebration ... More >>
Vodafone and SKY team up for even more Mobile TV
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 2:11 pm | Joint Media Statement
Vodafone and SKY confirmed today the addition of 5 new Mobile TV channels, increasing the current SKY Mobile TV channel line-up to 14. From today, Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney, Trackside, World Wrestling Entertainment and Nickelodeon will be added to ... More >>
Core findings of prisoners' children study
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 12:57 pm | Joint Media Statement
Do the children of prisoners follow in their parents’ footsteps? Is crime somehow hereditary? Do children come to see a criminal life as just normal? Or are the social, economic and emotional effects such that children are stuck in poverty with no apparent ... More >>
Release of report into the children of prisoners
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 12:51 pm | Joint Media Statement
The community organisation PILLARS, and the research company Network Research, have collaborated on the first year of a major research study into the children of prisoners. Funded by the Lottery Community Sector Research Committee, the study interviewed ... More >>