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  • $15 minimum wage would help inequality, and stimulate the economy
    2 Feb 2012 - 09:28

    CTU Secretary, Peter Conway today said that the government has a golden opportunity in the next few weeks to make New Zealand a fairer place, to help low income families cope with increases in the cost of living and to stimulate the economy, by increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour when it announces its decision on the annual minimum wage review.

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  • Government needs change in policy direction
    27 Jan 2012 - 12:09

    “The government should be focussing on creating jobs and getting money into the pockets of low and middle income people by stimulating the economy rather than an inflexible deficit target,” says CTU Economist Bill Rosenberg.

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  • Ports action puts Auckland businesses and jobs at risk
    20 Jan 2012 - 21:21

     

    "The Ports of Auckland management decision not to settle a collective agreement and to continue with plans to dismiss the current workforce and contract out the Port jobs disregards the impact that more industrial unrest will have on Auckland businesses", CTU president Helen Kelly said today.

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  • CPI increase still leaves need for big wages catch up
    19 Jan 2012 - 00:00

    The CPI increase for the 2011 year of 1.8 percent announced today, the first since the September 2010 quarter that doesn’t include the 20 percent increase in GST, is a significant reduction in annual inflation.

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  • Port and Government support for privatisation of Port of Auckland made clearer
    13 Jan 2012 - 11:38

    The admission today on radio by Ports of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson that he is not opposed to the privatisation of the Port of Auckland regardless of the views of the Mayor and the people of Auckland, completes the puzzle on the reasons why settlement of the Port agreement was not achieved yesterday, CTU President Helen Kelly said.

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  • Ports of Auckland management negligent
    12 Jan 2012 - 16:23

    Despite Port employers acknowledging in Mediation today that a proposal tabled by the Maritime union went “a considerable way to meeting its labour allocation issues and was big in a financial sense to the Port” the Port employers rejected the opportunity to settle this dispute unless the workers concede complete managerial discretion to the employer over the manner in which they are employed.<

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  • Productivity Commission Report flawed as well as biased
    12 Jan 2012 - 12:54

    The CTU says that the Productivity Commission's International Freight Transport Draft Report is seriously flawed as well as obviously biased.

    Peter Conway, CTU Secretary, says “we had hoped that the Productivity Commission would not go down the same track as the 2025 Task Force but it looks like that was a forlorn hope.”

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  • Fact sheet on Ports of Auckland dispute
    8 Jan 2012 - 20:54

    The link below is a fact sheet prepared by the NZCTU and MUNZ regarding the Ports of Auckland dispute.

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  • Know Your Rights in Holiday Period
    23 Dec 2011 - 11:48

    The CTU is reminding workers of their rights during the holiday season.

    Peter Conway, CTU Secretary, said that it is a busy period for some businesses, especially in the hospitality and tourism sectors.

    “Many people will be working and others will be trying to sort out what their holiday entitlements are.”

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  • CMP Workers back to work
    22 Dec 2011 - 12:44

    The 111 CMP meat workers, who have been locked out since 19 October, have today accepted an offer from CMP and will be back at work by the New Year.
     

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