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MAF and ADECCO deliver bleak Xmas
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 10:01 am | Unite Union
The evils of contracting government services have been exposed at Auckland Airport where staff who have performed duties for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for many years have been thrown out of their jobs. More >>
Burma: Protest Against Junta’s Fake Election 2010
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 5:56 pm | Unite Union
Burma ‘s Elections, scheduled for November 07,2010, are designed to legalise Military Rule in Burma under the 2008 Constitution, which was written to create a permanent Military Dictatorship in our motherland, Burma. More >>
Joint Call For Paul Henry To Be Sacked
Tuesday, 5 October 2010, 12:32 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union and Global Peace and Justice Auckland have issued a joint call for the broadcaster Paul Henry to be sacked from his position at TVNZ. “It is a case of ‘three strikes and you’re out’” says GPJA spokesperson John Minto. Paul Henry ... More >>
Prices and Tax goes up, but wages frozen
Thursday, 30 September 2010, 5:53 pm | Unite Union
JB Hi-Fi workers are combing a protest over low wages with opposition to the GST rise this Friday. More >>
“Tour of Shame” of unscrupulous employers
Thursday, 16 September 2010, 12:45 pm | Unite Union
On Sunday 19th Sept Unite Union will be conducting lightning pickets across the city of Christchurch to name and shame the unscrupulous employers that have put profit before the welfare of their staff during the aftermath of the 7.1 earthquake. More >>
First Security bail on workers
Friday, 10 September 2010, 12:15 pm | Unite Union
First Security has been accused of putting profit before workers welfare in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. More >>
Union flooded with calls from worried workers
Monday, 6 September 2010, 10:56 am | Unite Union
Unite Union's Christchurch office has been flooded with phone calls and text messages from worried workers in post-earthquake Christchurch. More >>
Calls from worried workers in Christchurch
Monday, 6 September 2010, 10:16 am | Unite Union
Unite Union's Christchurch office has been flooded with phone calls and text messages from worried workers in post-earthquake Christchurch. More >>
Sacked on the 89th Day of Employment
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 4:31 pm | Unite Union
Two weeks ago the Unite Union gathered to protest at BurgerFuel Mission Bay against the termination of the local franchisee's employee, Joanne Bartlett, on the 89th day of her 90 day trial period. Nationwide protests organised by the newly formed ... More >>
Fight for Every Job! Westin Hotel Workers Picket
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 2:21 pm | Unite Union
Westin Hotel workers, organised by the Unite Union, have vowed to fight for every job, as the news hit them that there are to be over 100 redundancies follwing a dispute between owners KordaMentha and Nigel McKenna's Melview, and will put the hotel under ... More >>
Naming and shaming bad employers
Wednesday, 1 September 2010, 9:37 am | Unite Union
Unite Union is accusing one of the country's largest Telco's - Vodafone - of being a bad employer after the highly profitable company refused a pay increase to most of its lowest-paid, most vulnerable employees for the second year running. More >>
Shame on Burger Fuel for 89th-day sacking
Friday, 20 August 2010, 9:33 am | Unite Union
Unite takes up John Key's challenge to name and shame bad employers. More >>
Employment Law Protest Targets Fast Food Industry
Sunday, 8 August 2010, 4:58 pm | Unite Union
Over 100 Christchurch Trade Unionists and their supporters staged a protest against National's proposed changes to employment law outside central city fast food outlets this afternoon. More >>
Grand Theft Auckland- Protest at JB HiFi this Week
Friday, 2 July 2010, 9:22 am | Unite Union
Software is now a multi billion dollar industry- with many games outselling Hollywood Movies. More >>
Security whistleblower sacked for exposing fraud
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 9:42 am | Unite Union
Unite Union is outraged the security guard who spoke out against her employer pressuring staff to “cheat” so they would complete NZQA security training modules has been sacked by her employer. More >>
Security whistleblower sacked for exposing fraud
Thursday, 1 July 2010, 9:29 am | Unite Union
Unite Union is outraged the security guard who spoke out against her employer pressuring staff to “cheat” so they would complete NZQA security training modules has been sacked by her employer. More >>
Protest at Trade Me HQ against sales of kwila
Wednesday, 26 May 2010, 3:53 pm | Unite Union
Human rights and rainforest activists will take their campaign against the import of kwila to the Trade Me Headquarters: 11 Cable St, Wellington on Thursday 27 May. The campaigners will assemble at Te Papa at 12-45 pm and march to the Trade Me office ... More >>
Labour history made today as New Zealand has first
Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 11:50 am | Unite Union
Labour history will be made today as New Zealand has it's first Mall workers strike at midday. Workers in JB HiFi in Albany, organised with the Unite Union, will be striking for better pay and against a culture of bullying and intimidation against ... More >>
JB HiFi Auckland- Solidarity Protest
Saturday, 8 May 2010, 10:51 am | Unite Union
The Queen street JB store will now be the site of protests every saturday from one until two pm- until CEO Richard Euchtritz, comes back to the negotiating table with something better than nothing. More >>
“Cheating” provides government subsidies
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 10:57 am | Unite Union
Unite Union has requested the New Zealand Qualifications Authority investigate the provision of training for security guards at Allied Security where staff undergoing training have been supplied with the answers to fill in “in their own words” More >>
