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SkyCity union members striking this weekend
Friday, 15 November 2019, 2:32 pm | Unite Union
SEA-Unite SkyCity workers are expected to strike this weekend after 50 called in sick with symptoms linked to smoke inhalation from the convention centre fire. More >>
Tens of thousands of workers health at risk for days
Friday, 1 November 2019, 10:17 am | Unite Union
Unite Union is demanding Worksafe New Zealand does it job and investigates if tens of thousands of workers had their health endangered at work last week. It is also asking it’s members to seek medical advice and lodge ACC claims if they were or ... More >>
SkyCity union wants answers from CEO
Monday, 28 October 2019, 5:11 pm | Unite Union
Unite union is making no apologies for demanding assurances and proof, in writing, that the SkyCity workplace is safe. On Labour Day - a day when New Zealand is supposed to celebrate the rights that workers have fought for — union members at SkyCity ... More >>
Time for shareholders to share with the workers
Thursday, 17 October 2019, 8:03 pm | Unite Union
Time for shareholders to share with the workers - Casino union members to picket SkyCity AGM More >>
Casino strike and picket at SkyCity
Tuesday, 15 October 2019, 11:11 am | Unite Union
SkyCity Casino workers will be on strike and picketing today as Rob Campbell, the Chair of SkyCity Casino talks to other employers about making pay fair at a “Wellbeing at Work” conference today. More >>
SkyCity workers strike to join the Student Climate Strike
Friday, 27 September 2019, 9:46 am | Unite Union
SEA-Unite union members at SkyCity casino in Auckland have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action today to support the student led Climate Strike. More >>
UPDATE: 97% SkyCity union members vote for strike
Saturday, 21 September 2019, 11:56 am | Unite Union
SEA-Unite media UPDATE: 97% SkyCity union members vote for Rugby World Cup Strike - Tūtira mai ngā iwi! More >>
Let them eat cake! SkyCity workers to strike
Thursday, 12 September 2019, 7:44 pm | Unite Union
Let them eat cake! SkyCity workers to strike as casino celebrates another holiday workers can’t take. More >>
Casino union members voting to strike again this weekend
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 3:25 pm | Unite Union
Casino union members voting to strike again this weekend after SkyCity brings no offer to mediation. More >>
Hundreds SkyCity Casino out on picket as strike extended
Sunday, 1 September 2019, 11:53 am | Unite Union
Hundreds of SEA-Unite union members rocked Federal Street outside SkyCity Casino in Auckland as they went on strike tonight to bring “back the weekend”. More >>
SkyCity Casino workers set to strike
Thursday, 29 August 2019, 9:35 am | Unite Union
SkyCity workers have voted overwhelmingly for strike action to get SkyCity to recognise that workers should be compensated for the unsociable hours they do so that the casino can rake in the cash at nights and weekends. More >>
Workers being forced back to China without a day in court
Monday, 29 July 2019, 4:10 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union is appealing to Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway to allow six Chinese construction workers to be allowed to stay in New Zealand so they can testify in an Employment Relations Authority hearing scheduled for October and November this ... More >>
Union accuses Restaurant Brands of trying to cheat staff
Wednesday, 26 June 2019, 10:20 am | Unite Union
Restaurant Brands Ltd (RBL), is asking staff to authorise the deduction of so-called overpayments from the annual leave money they owe their current and former staff. More >>
Why is MBIE allowing Restaurant Brands to cheat workers?
Wednesday, 19 June 2019, 12:09 pm | Unite Union
Unite Union is asking for Restaurant Brands to pay annual leave entitlements back further than they have agreed to do with the Ministry of Business Innovation and Enterprise. More >>
Hospital Attendants at Waikato Hospital to strike
Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 11:30 am | Unite Union
The one hundred attendants, members of Unite Union, have been in negotiations with the Waikato District Health Board since November last year. More >>
KFC, Carl’s Jr and Pizza Hut workers to strike this weekend
Friday, 17 May 2019, 10:26 am | Unite Union
KFC is off the menu this weekend as hundreds of Fast Food workers employed by Restaurant Brands and members of Unite Union take strike action this weekend. More >>
Vodafone workers being forced to sign exploitative agreement
Friday, 10 May 2019, 4:21 pm | Unite Union
Vodafone employees being forced to sign exploitative agreements with Tech Mahindra More >>
Vodafone employees forced onto inferior contracts
Thursday, 9 May 2019, 9:58 am | Unite Union
Unite Union is calling on Vodafone to pay Christchurch employees redundancy rather than forcing them to accept inferior and sub-standard contracts with Indian multinational Tech Mahindra. More >>
Immigration Minister breaks promise to Chinese workers
Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 11:51 am | Unite Union
Unite Union has accused Immigration New Zealand of doing nothing to help a group of 50 Chinese workers brought to New Zealand by National Personnel Limited and their agent Peter Li. More >>
National Day of mourning still needed
Friday, 22 March 2019, 9:22 am | Unite Union
A National Day of mourning is still needed. One was held following the Christchurch earthquake and today's terror victims deserve at least. More >>
