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CEO gets $3million, workers get nothing
Friday, 30 April 2010, 4:54 pm | Unite Union
Unite, the union that represents over a hundred workers in JB HiFi, will be holding a protest outside the Australian owned company’s flagship stores in Queen Street, Auckland, tomorrow at 1pm and wellington at 12 noon. The pickets are part of a Global ... More >>
MPs ask for their staff to be paid fairly
Friday, 30 April 2010, 10:41 am | Unite Union
Underpaid Parliamentary support staff are looking at a further pay cut in real terms if the Government doesn’t consider them in the coming budget. More >>
CCOs a serious threat to supercity staff pay
Thursday, 22 April 2010, 1:19 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union has written to the Prime Minister John Key requesting the government abandon plans to run the Council through Council Controlled Organisations because of dangers to the pay and conditions of staff employed by business interests at arm’s ... More >>
First ever JB Hi-Fi retail workers strike
Friday, 16 April 2010, 10:40 am | Unite Union
JB Hi-Fi staff at the company's Wellington store will take strike action today from 1pm as part of a Unite Union campaign to win higher wages for retail workers. The strike will be the first ever industrial action at one of the company's stores in ... More >>
Chinese Workers Protest Exploitation at Hollywood
Friday, 9 April 2010, 5:05 pm | Unite Union
Hollywood Bakery largely employs Chinese workers. There have been complaints about low pay, bullying and exploitation. Some workers report they have not had proper holiday pay, sick pay or secure hours. More >>
Low paid workers to protest April Fools' Joke
Wednesday, 31 March 2010, 4:12 pm | Unite Union
Low paid workers are set to protest tomorrow in Auckland’s Queen street against a “April Fool’s Joke” 25 cents increase on the minimum wage. More >>
Waikato hospital breaking law, endangering staff
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 4:30 pm | Unite Union
The Unite Union has accused the Waikato District Health Board of breaking the law in its dispute with hospital orderlies by refusing to attend mediation and using replacement labour during the orderlies strike today and tomorrow. More >>
Protest Picket For Student Democracy
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 9:21 am | Unite Union
“Not even the most anti-union employer tries to ban a group of workers forming a union Yet the senior management at MIT seems to think it can stop students forming a student club. Unite union has over 100 union members who are MIT students who have ... More >>
$20 grocery voucher for workers
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 10:42 am | Unite Union
Call centre employees at Mercury Energy (the retail arm of SOE Mighty River Power) are rewarded with a $20 grocery voucher if they meet monthly sales targets while senior executives of the State Owned Enterprise receive millions in bonuses. More >>
Auckland City Council Threatens Unite Leader
Saturday, 27 February 2010, 3:54 pm | Unite Union
The Auckland City Council has threatened to arrest the head of the Unite Union Matt McCarten and campaign volunteers tonight if they attempt to gather signatures in the union campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. More >>
Youth Rates Don't Cause Unemployment
Thursday, 25 February 2010, 9:20 am | Unite Union
Roger Douglas has had his bill to reintroduce youth rates drawn for discussion in Parliament. National voted against the effective abolition of youth rates when in opposition. Both claim the abolition of youth rates has lead to higher unemployment ... More >>
Living Wage Activists Will Confront John Key Today
Sunday, 14 February 2010, 12:33 pm | Unite Union
Campaigners angry at the National Government's minimum wage policy will confront Prime Minister John Key today at the Big Gay Out festival, in Auckland's Coyle Park, Point Chevailer. More >>
National has No Love For Workers this Valentine's
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 11:45 am | Unite Union
25 Cents "An Insult To The Working Poor"
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 1:32 pm | Unite Union
"The government throwing 25 cents to minimum wage workers is a cheap shot" said Campaign for a Living Wage organiser Joe Carolan. This is barely 2% of nothing, and will be well below real inflation when his government raises GST in the budget." "Low paid ... More >>
Real support for raising minimum wage to $15ph
Monday, 18 January 2010, 12:27 pm | Unite Union
“The NZ Herald poll this morning that found that 61% of New Zealanders support raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, underestimates the support we are getting from thousands of people every week at our campaign stalls and workplaces” said ... More >>
Strike over lost conditions and relativities
Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 3:09 pm | Unite Union
Orderlies who are members of Unite Union employed by the Waikato District Health Board at Waikato Hospital will be taking strike action on the day of Christmas Eve. More >>
Union boycott after more than 50 job losses
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 1:45 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union is asking its members and the public not to participate in interviews run by market research giant Colmar Brunton after the company announced the redundancy of around fifty union members and other call centre staff with no redundancy compensation ... More >>
Union to picket call centre over use of 90 day law
Monday, 7 December 2009, 3:51 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union will picket the Wellington call centre of Positive Airflow Limited for sacking a worker and union member without reason under the National Party’s 90 day probationary period law. Positive Airflow Ltd sells Heat Recovery Ventilation ... More >>
Brash needs to learn up from down
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 9:40 am | Unite Union
Unite, the union that organises thousands of low paid workers in workplaces such as cinemas, fastfoods and call centres, thinks that Don Brash needs a lesson on which way is up and which way is down. Brash has proposed to reduce New Zealand's income ... More >>
Join the People's Picnic this Saturday!
Friday, 27 November 2009, 2:07 pm | Unite Union
Join the good people from Unite Union and the Campaign for a Living Wage at this Saturday's Grey Lynn Park Festival. More >>
