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Solidarity for Locked Out IHC Workers
Monday, 3 November 2003, 10:43 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Council of Trade Unions is calling on all unions to support the 2,000 IHC workers locked out by their employer, CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
Unions Tackle Barriers to Work-Life Balance
Friday, 24 October 2003, 9:02 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Precarious employment arrangements, short-staffing, low pay, long hours, poor access to leave and lack of child-care are the main barriers to workers in balancing work with the rest of their lives, Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said ... More >>
Work-Life Balance: Executive Summary
Friday, 24 October 2003, 9:00 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
In 2001 the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions commissioned research into work-life balance after anecdotal evidence suggested that work hours, leave entitlements and the challenges of balancing work and family were critical issues for workers. The ... More >>
CTU Biennial Conference 2003
Friday, 24 October 2003, 8:52 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Biennial Conference 2003 Summary of discussion Work-life Balance Introduction In 2002 the CTU released the Thirty Families Report as part of the CTU's wider Get a Life! campaign. It highlighted that work hours was a significant issue for many workers, ... More >>
ERA is Failing Families Trapped in Poverty
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 4:11 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Employment Relations Act is not delivering to thousands of workers and their families who are stuck in poverty and who are not sharing in the economic growth of the last few years, Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
Union Movement Challenged to Transform
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 4:08 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The union movement is continuing to grow, but needs to transform to sustain its position as the voice of working people, Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said today. More >>
Solidarity For Strikers at Oamaru Hospital
Thursday, 23 October 2003, 12:01 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference has unanimously passed a resolution of support for nurses and administration workers at Oamaru Hospital striking for pay parity with their South Island counterparts today. More >>
Unions Challenged on Health and Safety
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 9:27 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Worker health and safety needed to be a top priority of any union and should be a focus in collective bargaining, delegates to the Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference in Wellington were told today. More >>
Fight Against Workplace Deaths
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 12:08 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Strengthening workers’ ability to bargain collectively will reduce workplace fatalities and improve this country’s dismal health and safety record, Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
Debt Report Highlights High Price of Low Pay
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 11:00 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
A major report into poverty and debt shows the desperate need in many families for decent work and a rise in the minimum wage, Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said today. More >>
Unionists to Gather for Biennial Conference
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 5:35 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Around 300 trade unionists from around the country arrive in Wellington next week for the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference. More >>
Time Has Come for Privy Council Abolition
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 9:40 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
“The establishment of our own Supreme Court signals the coming of age of our judicial system,” Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
Call for Action over Workplace Death Figures
Monday, 6 October 2003, 10:10 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Business, the Government, and unions must urgently get behind the new health and safety law to eliminate the workplace death toll, Council of Trade Unions president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
Young Workers get Strong Voice in Unions
Friday, 3 October 2003, 1:56 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Many young workers say that being undervalued and discriminated against because of their age are their biggest problems in the workplace, the Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said today. More >>
Council of Trade Unions Biennial Conference
Friday, 3 October 2003, 9:47 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
22, 23 & 24 October The NZCTU Biennial Conference will take place at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, October 22 to 24, 2003. More >>
Tariff Cuts Put Jobs at Risk
Tuesday, 30 September 2003, 11:26 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Jobs will be lost and the Government’s economic development strategy will be damaged by planned tariff cuts, Council of Trade Unions economist Peter Conway said today. More >>
CTU Elects New Vice-President
Friday, 26 September 2003, 11:25 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The general secretary of the Association of University Staff, Helen Kelly, has been elected unopposed as vice-president of the Council of Trade Unions, CTU president Ross Wilson announced today. More >>
More Time Needed for Talks on Foreshore & Seabed
Friday, 26 September 2003, 11:19 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
“The Council of Trade Unions has written to the Prime Minister seeking more time for public discussion on the foreshore and seabed issue,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today. More >>
CTU attack inaccurate, unbalanced
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The CTU's misuse of a Canadian report as an excuse to bash the structural reforms of the '80s and early '90s relies on inaccurate and unbalanced interpretation, says Business NZ. More >>
Damage Done By Employment Contracts Act
Monday, 22 September 2003, 9:31 am | New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
CTU President, Ross Wilson, says a new report released this month provides stark proof of the damage done by the Employment Contracts Act and the failed economic experiment of the 1980s and 1990s. More >>
