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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions - Latest News [Page 32]
Urgent action needed to prevent workers losing millions
Wednesday, 22 June 2016, 9:05 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Government must take action urgently to prevent working people losing up to a million dollars a day in unpaid holiday pay while the multi-billion dollar payroll problem is fixed, says CTU Secretary Sam Huggard. More >>
90 day fire at will periods are a failed experiment
Friday, 17 June 2016, 10:26 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Government research agrees with CTU; 90 day fire at will periods are a failed experiment More >>
90 day fire at will periods are a failed experiment
Friday, 17 June 2016, 10:18 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Working people are pleased that research commissioned by the Government is consistent with what working people have being saying - that 90 day fire at will periods are a failed experiment. More >>
Government bans importation of (most) asbestos
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 1:19 pm | Council of Trade Unions
Working people have been demanding that the Government ban the importation of cancer causing asbestos for decades. Yesterday the Government took action and banned most importation of asbestos. More >>
More balance in the economy needed to ensure strong growth
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 1:04 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
More balance in the economy needed to ensure strong growth in incomes of working people More >>
Public health services worse off than in 2009/10
Friday, 10 June 2016, 1:48 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Health budget analysis: public health services at least $1.2 billion worse off than in 2009/10 More >>
Holidays Act underpayment of workers raised on global stage
Thursday, 9 June 2016, 10:41 am | NZCTU
CTU President Richard Wagstaff addressed the International Labour Organisation (the United Nations agency for work and employment) today at 8 pm New Zealand time to focus global attention on the New Zealand government’s failure to protect working ... More >>
The payroll secret that is costing workers $500 a year
Sunday, 5 June 2016, 10:12 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Fresh analysis of documents released this week show that MBIE pushed to keep secret the significant underpayment of up to a third of New Zealand workers under the Holidays Act, costing affected workers up to $500 a year while the issue remained unresolved. More >>
Budget 2016 – Working Kiwis deserve a better life
Thursday, 26 May 2016, 2:50 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Today the Minister of Finance, Bill English, has delivered the National Governments 8th consecutive Budget and working people are underwhelmed and disappointed. More >>
Health funding needs $691 million to maintain services
Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 9:39 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Government’s health budget will need to increase by $691 million just to maintain current levels of service. This is one of the key findings of a pre-Budget analysis of Government health expenditure prepared by the CTU and the Association of Salaried ... More >>
Mansions & garden sheds
Friday, 13 May 2016, 10:22 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The New Zealand Herald has released data today showing that our highest paid executives had a pay rise of 12% in 2015. In contrast most working Kiwis had a pay rise of 2.2% over the same period. So while the news is great for these high paid executives – ... More >>
Government’s job creation strategies need a major boost
Wednesday, 4 May 2016, 12:15 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Working people are calling on the Government to significantly up their game in job creation, following a big rise in people looking for work. More >>
New Trade Union Centre Rebuild
Monday, 2 May 2016, 10:25 am | Council of Trade Unions
A new Trade Union Centre (TUC) returns to Christchurch five years after the devastating 2011 Feburary 22, earthquake. More >>
99 Kiwis killed at work
Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 11:05 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
This Workers Memorial Day, April 28th, we remember the 99* New Zealanders who went to work and never came home, the 99 New Zealanders who were killed at work. More >>
Working people deserve an apology from Bill English
Thursday, 14 April 2016, 10:47 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Council of Trade Unions says that Deputy Leader of the National Party, Bill English needs to apologise to working people after his reprehensible comments made about working people being useless. More >>
Government jobs strategy needed
Thursday, 7 April 2016, 5:13 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Following on from two large-scale redundancies announced in the past two weeks, new analysis out today from the Reserve Bank shows increased migration is contributing to the reason so many people are out of work. More >>
Training for workplace health and safety representatives
Monday, 4 April 2016, 2:35 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions knows that high quality, worker-centric health and safety representative training programmes are a key to safer work under the new Health and Safety at Work Act. The new Act comes into force today and heralds ... More >>
Holiday pay roll mistakes can be fixed
Friday, 1 April 2016, 2:32 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Holiday pay roll mistakes can be fixed The Council of Trade Unions is calling on the Government to work with business and unions to resolve the miscalculation, by some employers, of holiday pay entitlements. “Today we have written to Minister ... More >>
New Health and safety law from Monday
Friday, 1 April 2016, 1:00 pm | Council of Trade Unions
The Health and Safety at Work Act comes into force on Monday 4 April. The new law will mean that more Kiwis will come home safely from work. More >>
Another forestry worker killed at work
Thursday, 31 March 2016, 3:14 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Another forestry worker has been killed at work today. The Council of Trade Unions sends our deepest sympathies to the whanau and colleagues of the man who was working on a Pan Pac forestry block inland from Tutira, north of Napier. More >>
