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New Zealand The death-by-1000-cuts approach to employment rights [The Post] 11-06-2025

New Zealand Public service union condemns New Zealand’s ‘wage theft’ budget [The Mandarin] 27-05-2025

New Zealand A Budget Day like no other [Scoop] 23-05-2025

New Zealand Billions missing from health budget [NZCTU-Te Kauae Kamahi] 22-05-2025

New Zealand Children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as house slaves [RNZ] 19-05-2025

New Zealand Maritime Union condemns Government’s attack on pay equity and women workers [MUNZ] 12-05-2025

New Zealand Women revolt at NZ government's pay equity walk-back [AAP] 12-05-2025

New Zealand Protests against new pay equity legislation continue [RNZ] 10-05-2025

New Zealand Unions launch petition to fight for pay equity [NZCTU-Te Kauae Kamahi] 08-05-2025

New Zealand Van Velden goes for Union throat by gutting pay equity thresholds and smashing working women [The Daily Blog] 07-05-2025


Other news


Queenstown living: Freezing in tents and cars sqeezing into squalid hovels 2025-07-08 [Stuff]

Watch: Trade unions, former MP's and lawyers speak at Regulatory Standards BILL hearing 2025-07-08 [Radio New Zealand]

Union warns against meat self-inspection 2025-07-03 [Radio New Zealand]

Ferry privatization would be a disaster 2025-07-02 [MUNZ]

Community support workers amongst NZ's lowest paid 2025-06-30 [Radio New Zealand]

Government must do more to build publlic health system capability-NZNO 2025-06-30 [NZNO]

Auditor-General turns down PSA request to investigate Health NZ, refers issues to auditor 2025-06-30 [PSA]

Uncertainty for meatworkers as plants grapple with low livestock numbers 2025-06-30 [RNZ]

Kinleith pulp and paper mill falls silent 2025-06-30 [RNZ]

Another day another attack on workers rights-employers now able to dock the pay of workers taking partial strike action 2025-06-27 [PSA-Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi]

NZCTU statement on Takutai Tarsh Kemp 2025-06-26 [NZCTU-Te Kauae Kamahi]

Employers once more able to penalise workers for refusing extra duties 2025-06-26 [The Post]

Food safety will be compromised if meat inspection is privatized as Govt proposes 2025-06-26 [PSA-Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi]

E Tu joins thousands in opposing antii-democratic Regulatory Standards Bill 2025-06-26 [E tu union]

Another forty-six jobs to go at DIA with a further fourteen under threat 2025-06-26 [PSA-Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi]

NEW TE Whatu Ora/ Health NZ CEO takes over at a challenging time for health 2025-06-26 [PSA-Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi]

Government out of touch on employment rights 2025-06-26 [NZCTU-Te Kauae Kamahi]

School supoort staff reject Ministry of Education pay offer 2025-06-26 [Radio New Zealand]

Industrial action begins at Napier Port over pay deal 2025-06-25 [Today]

Teachers burned on pay equity hit the negotiation table 2025-06-25 [NZEI-Te Riu Roa]

Nurses need share of primary health funding increase 2025-06-24 [NZNO-Toputanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa]

Tauranga firefighters call for urgent re-build of earthquake prone station 2025-06-24 [NZ Herald]

Northland nurses and healthcare assistants strike over on-going pay dispute 2025-06-23 [Radio New Zealand]

Bus driver punched, choked as passenger lashes out 2025-06-23 [SunLive]

Theatre nurses in Whangarei to strike 2025-06-23 [NZNO]

Cuts across polytech sector affect 300 jobs: union 2025-06-23 [RNZ]

Polytech job cuts: 'The mood has changed from anger to sadness' 2025-06-23 [RNZ]

Radical employment bill threatens every NZ worker 2025-06-19 [NZCTU-Te Kauae Kamahi]

Early childhood teachers aghast as Government eyes quality vs cost trade-off 2025-06-19 [NZEI]

Primary care funding must be passed on to nurses 2025-06-19 [NZNO-Toputanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa]

Hospitals understaffed and under-resourced-Senior doctor 2025-06-19 [Radio New Zealand]

Worst employment law change in a generation will lock in exploitation, says E tu 2025-06-18 [E tu union]

War on women intensifies as govt takes axe to sick leave for part time workers 2025-06-18 [PSA-Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi]

Confusion over the future of sick leave 2025-06-18 [Radio New Zealand]

More than two hundred senior Northland doctors dentists striking over pay dispute with HealthNZ 2025-06-17 [Radio New Zealand]

No plan to halve sick leave minister says after Chistopher Luxons comments 2025-06-16 [Radio New Zealand]

Government mulls cutting sick leave-Luxon 2025-06-15 [Radio New Zealand]

Legal action over changes to resource teaching roles 'possible'-union 2025-06-15 [Radio New Zealand]

Maritime Union says Aratere ferry should not retire despite breakdown 2025-06-13 [Radio New Zealand]

ACC warn Brooke van Velden: Your reforms will cost us more in payouts 2025-06-13 [Stuff]

Firefighters struggling with ageing truck fleet-union 2025-06-13 [Radio New Zealand]

Unions take pay equity fight to the ILO 2025-06-12 [NZCTU]

Unions take NZ's pay equity fight to international conference 2025-06-12 [Radio New Zealand]

Unions take NZ's pay equity fight to international conference 2025-06-12 [Radio New Zealand]

The disgrace of the hospice care funding scandal 2025-06-12 [Ian Powell]

Andrew Little commits to pay equity for WCC library assistants 2025-06-12 [Andrew Little]

The death-by-1000-cuts approach to employment rights 2025-06-11 [The Post]

Climate legal action necessary response to Government inaction 2025-06-11 [NZCTU]

PSA wqelcomes mayoral candidate's commitment to pay equity 2025-06-11 [PSA]

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