February, 2007
Labour Market Issues | News
“James Buwalda has re-shaped the Department to address the real labour market issues of the 21st century” CTU president Ross Wilson said today.
News | Superannuation
Business NZ is scaremongering with an immature reaction to a very reasonable union movement strategy that seeks employer contribution to retirement savings.
Collective bargaining | News
"New Zealand pay rates are still far too low and the CTU supports the EPMU’s wages campaign launched today," CTU president Ross Wilson said today.
Leave/Holidays | News
"Retail workers’ ability to achieve a work-life balance isn’t being helped by attempts to remove two of the last remaining non-trading days they have off to spend with their families," CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said today.
Health | News
The new year started off with a lot of publicity about strikes by radiation therapists and laboratory workers in the health sector. Even Bishop Randerson waded into the debate. I thought I would take this opportunity to put a union view on what became an understandably emotional issue.
News | Politics
"Workers will take a keen interest in developing a sustainable New Zealand, and have plenty to bring to the table," CTU president Ross Wilson said today, after the Prime Minister’s Statement to Parliament.
Labour Market Issues | News
"As long as there remain 80,000 plus people out of work there should be no room for complacency on unemployment," CTU president Ross Wilson said today.
Labour Market Issues | News
"A 3.2% annual increase in wages in 2006 is still a modest outcome in a labour market with widespread labour shortages", said Peter Conway, CTU Economist. However for those workers who got an increase in 2006, the average increase was 5.5% and the median increase was 4.2%.