Today’s Union News includes NZCTU Secretary, Melissa Ansell-Bridges being quoted on New Zealand voting against adopting a new suite of global protections for workers in the gig economy at the International Labour Organisation conference last week.
Union coverage
- CTU, PSA – NZ joins with the US to vote against gig economy worker rights at global ILO meeting | The Post (paywalled)
- ASMS – ‘Inappropriate’ and political ‘overreach’: Medical leaders condemn Simeon Brown’s ‘interference’ with Medical Council | The Press (paywalled)
- PSA – Review into Public Service Commission’s Facebook ‘mega strike’ ads now months overdue | The Post (paywalled)
- NZNO – ‘Exhausted’ workers in Palmerston North mental health ward facing risk of assault every day | The Post
Employment
- Modern slavery law risks ‘significant cost burden’, companies argue | Newsroom
- Fears about failing IT project kept under the radar, sidelined staff | RNZ
Opinion
- John MacDonald: Why $33M down the drain doesn’t surprise me | Newstalk ZB
- Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Don’t trifle with Erica Stanford | Newstalk ZB
- Public servants must show us why politicians and the public can trust them | NZ Herald (paywalled)