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Lift the freeze on low pay
Friday, 27 November 2009, 10:11 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Government cannot ignore the thousands of protestors who are marching across New Zealand to demand an end to the wage freeze on low paid public and community sector workers, said CTU President Helen Kelly today. Demonstrations in 27 towns ... More >>
Residential care home firm hoarding public cash
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:44 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Government’s own unfair wage policies on the low paid are spreading to the private aged care sector, said the CTU today, in support of the New Zealand Nurses Association and Service and Food Workers Union dispute with employer Presbyterian ... More >>
Rental costs paint grim picture for have-nots
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4:07 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Figures released today in the Household Economic Survey (Income) show that despite rising average incomes, accommodation costs are still really hurting low and middle-income families. “A particular reason for this is rent,” said CTU Economist Bill Rosenberg. ... More >>
Mixed news on job front
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 12:27 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The CTU gave a cautious welcome to expansion of the youth Job Ops scheme and the improvement in youth unemployment figures announced today. More >>
ACC – where has the 'honest conversation' gone
Friday, 20 November 2009, 11:40 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The CTU today asked how New Zealand was supposed to have the ‘honest conversation’ on ACC promised by the Prime Minister when Nick Smith was closing down important advisory groups and rushing the ACC Bill through Parliament with a totally inadequate ... More >>
Changes needed to NZ monetary policy - CTU
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 5:03 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
New Zealand urgently needs to change the way it operates its monetary policy and exchange rate, said CTU Economist and Policy Director Bill Rosenberg today. “The statement by Phil Goff that Labour is willing to look at alternatives to the current ... More >>
CTU says no to ACC full-funding, compensation cuts
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 3:58 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The CTU has today criticised the continuing insistence on full-funding for ACC and given strong warnings against the return of experience rating in ACC’s work account in its submission to the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee on the ... More >>
Women working for free until the end of the year
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Today marks the day when New Zealand women are effectively working for free until the end of the year, says the Pay Equity Challenge Coalition. “The effect of women being paid less than men for work of equal value means women are subsidising the ... More >>
Lift The Freeze On Low Pay
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
A series of protest rallies will take place across the country on Friday 27 November to protest wage freezes in the public services, in particular the health, disability care and education sectors, and to build wider public support for the freeze to be ... More >>
Women – Working for Free for the Rest of the Year
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 9:55 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Women subsidise the economy by nearly $4 billion a year! New Zealand women earn at least 12% less (in average hourly earnings) than men. It’s as if from 18 November until the end of the year women are working for free. Nearly 1 million people miss ... More >>
Increase in driving age detrimental to young peopl
Monday, 16 November 2009, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The New Zealand youth union movement says the Government needs to look at better driver training before it simply raises the New Zealand driving age. CTU youth convener James Sleep says imminent moves to raise the driving age will have a detrimental ... More >>
CTUWC Condemns ACC Attack On Low Paid Workers
Friday, 13 November 2009, 4:32 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Women’s Council of the NZCTU have condemned ACC’s cutting of travel allowances for home support workers as yet another attack on the low paid and on women in particular. More >>
More Can be Done to Assist Unemployed
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 12:06 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Council of Trade Unions says more can be done to assist the unemployed. The unemployment rate, as measured by the Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) published today, went up to 6.5 percent in the September quarter which is 150,000 people. Peter Conway, ... More >>
Wage rates still rising despite falling jobs
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 10:03 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Most workers do not appear to be subject to wage freezes according to today’s Labour Cost Index (LCI) which shows hourly wage rates are still rising despite the recession and falling job numbers, says the CTU’s Economist and Policy Director Bill Rosenberg. ... More >>
Climbing out of recession still an issue
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 10:43 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The signal today from the Reserve Bank that the OCR would not lift until the second half of 2010 is a clear indication that inflation is not an issue in the economy at this time but climbing out of the recession still is, said CTU Economist and Policy ... More >>
Calls for pay trade-off fooled no one
Friday, 23 October 2009, 1:49 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Comments by the Prime Minister to the CTU conference this week that teachers should trade off their own pay rises to fund fair pay rates for low paid school support staff were provocative and a cynical attempt to shift blame for his Government’s ... More >>
ACC threatened by National’s privatisation agenda
Friday, 23 October 2009, 1:11 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The CTU wants to know why the National Government wants to privatise ACC when every informed party is telling them that they don’t want it and it wouldn’t deliver better value for money or outcomes for accident victims than the publicly owned scheme ... More >>
CTU launches conversation towards a fairer economy
Thursday, 22 October 2009, 11:42 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The CTU launched a national debate on how to create an economy that works for everyone at their Biennial Conference today in Wellington. CTU Economist and Policy Director Bill Rosenberg hopes the publication of the paper on an alternative economic strategy ... More >>
Nick Smith fails to tick the boxes on ACC
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 5:29 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
In its haste to introduce the ACC Bill, the National Government has shown extreme disregard for proper consultation and has failed to adequately cost the reforms, said CTU President Helen Kelly today. More >>
CTU challenges Key to set tone for the nation
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
CTU President Helen Kelly today challenged John Key and the National Government to set the tone for industrial relations in New Zealand to move the country away from the conflict and disruption of the current lockouts. Kelly was speaking to delegates ... More >>
