Today’s Union News includes extensive coverage on our rally at Parliament yesterday over changes to the Health and Safety at Work Bill, as well as coverage over the closure of the Juken NZ mill in Northland.
Health and safety law changes
- NZ First ‘looking very hard’ at new health and safety legislation | RNZ
- Pike River families rally against overhaul of workplace safety laws | RNZ
- NZ First treads awkward line as health & safety bill it says will kill workers returns to Parliament | The Post (paywalled)
- Winston Peters says Government’s health and safety reforms will be ‘dead on arrival’ | Newstalk ZB
- Growing row engulfs health and safety bill ahead of second reading | The Post (paywalled)
- Van Velden rebuffs NZ First’s ’11th-hour politicking’ on health and safety overhaul | RNZ
Other union coverage
- Workers First – Northland mill set to close after buyer unable to be found | Stuff
- Workers First – Juken New Zealand to close Northland mill after buyer search fails | NZ Herald
- Workers First – PM rejects union’s request for help to save Kaitāia timber mill jobs | The Post (paywalled)
- Workers First – Kaitāia mill confirmed to close after no buyer found – union | 1 News
- Workers First – ‘Oh, I cannot remember’: Jenna Lynch asks Shane Jones tough questions | THREENews / Stuff
- PPTA – Teachers say far-right extremism on the rise in classrooms | 1News
- PPTA – ‘I’ve had students deny the Holocaust in class’: far-right extremism on the rise in classrooms | RNZ
- Port unions – Unions urge councillors to rewrite rules protecting Lyttelton Port | The Press (paywalled)