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  • CTU faces the challenges
    18 Aug 2011 - 10:00

    In her opening speech to the CTU Biennial Conference - Workers Rights in the 21st Century - President, Helen Kelly highlighted the importance of workers’ rights in order to address inequality and promote fairness.

    Helen Kelly issued a message to unions "our challenge is not just to fight for improvements in workers’ rights, but in the process to build and innovate from what we have.

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  • Court of Appeal upholds union appeal on strike breakers
    10 Mar 2011 - 12:45

    10 March 2011

    The Court of Appeal  has quashed the Employment Court decision which permitted the use of strike breakers during the 2009 dispute between the Dairy Workers Union and the Talley’s company, Open Country Cheese.

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  • New Zealand must condemn anti-democracy violence in Egypt and Tunisia
    8 Feb 2011 - 13:24

    The CTU has written to Foreign Minister Murray McCully asking the New Zealand Government to condemn the violent attacks on trade unionists in Tunisia and on the pro-democracy protesters in Egypt.

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  • Student Bill support shows Government out of touch
    2 Dec 2010 - 10:10

    The Council of Trade Unions youth wing, Stand Up, has slammed the ACT Party’s Voluntary Student Membership Bill.

    Stand Up Convener James Sleep says the National Party’s decision to support ACT’s Bill shows that the Government is out of touch with students.

    “Student associations provide a voice for students, provide important services and support,” said Sleep.

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  • Fight against unfair employment laws does not stop here
    24 Nov 2010 - 12:41

    Unions will not let up in their campaign against National's unfair and regressive employment laws, said the CTU today despite the passing of the Employment Relations Act and Holidays Act Amendment Bills in Parliament.

    CTU President Helen Kelly said: "Unions are not sitting back in defeat at this moment.

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  • Don’t let unfair dismissals happen to others, says 90 day worker
    17 Nov 2010 - 14:01

    Heather Smith, the pharmacy worker sacked under a 90 day clause, has called on Parliament to spare other workers the experience she suffered as a result of the 90 day ‘fire at will’ law.

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  • Dairy worker driven overseas by 90 day unfair dismissal
    8 Nov 2010 - 09:31

    A dairy worker and his family are the latest victims of summary dismissal under the 90-day fire at will law to be highlighted in a video released by the CTU today.

    The couple, who wish to remain anonymous because of any impact on extended family, lost their jobs on a dairy farm as a result of standing up for a migrant co-worker who was being routinely abused by their employer.

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  • CTU Releases Employment Law Submissions 21.9.10
    21 Sep 2010 - 10:58

    The Government needs to reconsider unnecessary and unfair changes to the rights of New Zealand workers, said the CTU today.

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  • Attacks on workers and unions sinister 15.7.10
    15 Jul 2010 - 19:24

    Leaked information that the Government will both extend the law that removes the right to appeal against unfair dismissal and restrict union access onto worksites is a throw-back to the bad old days of the Employment Contracts Act of the 1990s, CTU President Helen Kelly said today.

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  • CTU Food and Beverage Unions back Open Country Cheese workers
    18 Sep 2009 - 17:06

    A meeting today of the CTU Food and Beverage Unions Group and the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) pledged support to the striking workers facing a 6 week lockout at the Talley company – Open Country Cheese in Waharoa. view

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