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Government Settles For The Bare Minimum When It Comes To Workers
Wednesday, 1 April 2026, 10:00 am | Unite Union
The new rate of $23.95 remains significantly below the Living Wage, leaving workers struggling to keep up with the rising cost of rent, food, and basic necessities. More >>
Unite Union Opposes Employment Leave Bill That Cuts Workers’ Leave And Pay
Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 11:30 am | Unite Union
The Employment Leave Bill, which had its first reading in Parliament last week, seeks to replace the current Holidays Act. Unite Union says the proposed changes would leave many workers worse off. More >>
Unite Union Condemns Deadly Attacks On Iran — Calls Out Government Silence
Monday, 2 March 2026, 6:40 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union is calling on the New Zealand Government to publicly condemn the attacks, demand an immediate ceasefire, and advocate for urgent diplomatic intervention. More >>
Fast Food Workers Appalled At Minimum Wage Announcement
Friday, 12 December 2025, 2:38 pm | Unite Union
The announced rate is $4 (over 17%) below the Living Wage of $28.95. Just two and a half years ago in April 2023 the minimum wage was just 95 cents (4%) below the Living Wage. More >>
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers Are Set To Lose 25% Of Their Leave
Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 5:47 pm | Unite Union
It is outright irresponsible and frankly dangerous for the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety to create a scenario where workers are unable to prevent the spread of illness, or for them to take time out to rest away from their jobs. More >>
McDonald’s Workers To Hold Strike At Whanganui Store
Friday, 22 August 2025, 11:47 am | Unite Union
McDonald’s workers at Victoria Ave Whanganui will walk off shift and demonstrate outside the store during the lunch shift this Friday, in part of the campaign of industrial action as a show of workers standing up for their rights. More >>
McDonald’s Workers To Hold Strike At Hastings Store
Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 12:42 pm | Unite Union
“Workers deserve a path to a living wage. McDonald’s would rather fight their own staff than give people a decent increase in a cost of living crisis, that's outrageous.” said Ben Peterson, Unite Union Assistant Secretary. More >>
McDonalds Workers To Hold Strike At Basin Reserve Store
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 3:20 pm | Unite Union
McDonalds workers at Basin Reserve will hold an initial strike action during the afternoon shift this Thursday, to launch the campaign of a pathway to a living wage. More >>
Hospo Workers To Rally: Poverty Is No Joke
Monday, 31 March 2025, 10:31 pm | Unite Union
Hospitality and other workers will gather at 5 events across Aotearoa to call on the Government and employers to take real action on poverty by making a serious increase to wages. More >>
Poverty Is No Joke: April 1st Rallies Demand A Living Wage
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 1:34 pm | Unite Union
Every worker deserves a wage they can live on. That remains out of reach for many. On April 1st, the minimum wage will rise by just 35 cents. This is effectively a pay cut for thousands of workers as it is a below inflation adjustment. More >>
Holidays Act Rip-Off Continues With The McDonald’s Remediation
Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 3:16 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union National Secretary John Crocker says: “The McDonald’s remediation portal, which went live yesterday, is misleading and ripping off workers after years of delay with Ministry oversight.” More >>
Sick Leave And Holidays Act Changes Will Cost Workers Billions In Lost Wages
Thursday, 6 June 2024, 2:47 pm | Unite Union
These changes will see a transfer of billions of dollars of wages from workers to employers. The types of workers primarily affected, women, young workers, māori and pasifika and the low paid will lose and employers will gain, massively. More >>
Unite Union Offers Support To Freyberg Students Facing Disciplinary Action Over Protest
Friday, 15 March 2024, 7:51 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union has offered professional advice and assistance to any Freyberg student facing disciplinary action over the recent protest at the school. “A school strike and protest in 2006 over youth rates drew very similar criticism at the time. In ... More >>
Unite Union Says Fair Pay Repeal Victimises Workers Who Deserve A Pay Rise
Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 11:46 am | Unite Union
Unite Union says the government's repeal of the Fair Pay Agreement legislation is cancelling next year's pay rise for a quarter of a million New Zealanders right before Christmas. National Secretary John Crocker says "We know from the leaked ... More >>
The System Of Mass Migrant Labour Exploitation Must Be Ended
Monday, 4 September 2023, 3:17 pm | Unite Union
The system of mass migrant labour exploitation was established by the newly elected National Government in 2008 when they radically increased the number of temporary work visas and student visas with work rights while not increasing the number of ... More >>
Massive Hospitality Fair Pay Agreement Gets The Go Ahead
Tuesday, 30 May 2023, 9:44 am | Unite Union
Around 160,000 hospitality workers and over 24,000 employers will be covered by a new Hospo Fair pay Agreement that has just been given the green light by MBIE. Unite was informed tonight that the Chief Executive has approved it’s application ... More >>
Why Does National Think Importing Cheap Labour Is The Solution To Every Problem?
Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 12:18 pm | Unite Union
The National Party announcement on proposed immigration reforms is a leap backwards to the pre-Covid times when the economy depended on cheap and vulnerable labour imported from overseas and bonded to their New Zealand employer. The number of ... More >>
Minimum Wage Just Standing Still While Inflationary Profits Soar
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 8:55 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union welcomed the minimum wage increase as the minimum needed by low paid workers to get by as they pay the price of massively increasing corporate profits. “7% is actually just standing still” said National Secretary John Crocker. “It ... More >>
Unite's Fair Pay Agreement 4 Hospo Campaign Launches
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 1:26 pm | Unite Union
Unite today launched its Fair Pay Agreement 4 Hospo campaign at its annual conference. Union members from around the country, almost all employed in hospitality, were joined by NZCTU President Richard Wagstaff, MPs Jan Logie (Greens) and Helen White (Labour) ... More >>
'SkyCity's Wage Increase Of Between 4 And 6 Percent, Is An Effective Real Wage Cut Of Up To 3.3% When Inflation Is 7.3%'
Thursday, 4 August 2022, 6:06 pm | Unite Union
SkyCity is offering the majority of staff a wage increase of between 4 and 6 percent. "This is an effective real wage cut of up to 3.3% when inflation is 7.3%" says Unite Union advocate Mike Treen who is leading the bargaining team for union ... More >>
