Today’s Union News includes coverage of NZPFU’s 50th strike, the Lyttelton port privatisation decision, and the ACT party’s announcement on giving teachers more powers to remove disruptive students.
Union coverage
- MUNZ – After the Lyttelton port decision, may genuine partnership rise | The Press (paywalled)
- MUNZ, RMT – Ratepayers’ share of Lyttelton Port expansion bill kept secret | The Press (paywalled)
- NZPFU – Professional firefighters reach 50 strikes with no plans to back down – NZ Herald (paywalled)
- NZPFU – Whanganui firefighters back Green Party’s bill to cover presumptive occupational cancer – NZ Herald
- PPTA – Act wants to give teachers the power to remove disruptive students | Stuff
- PPTA – ACT policy on class disruption ‘simplistic’ but has a point – Education Minister Erica Stanford | RNZ
- PSA – More than 400 science workers will strike tomorrow | New Zealand Doctor
- TEU – Cost blowout puts fees for foreign PhD students under review | RNZ
- Unions generally – Northland health trust behind Rāwene Hospital faces financial crunch | NZ Herald
Employment
- Fuel subsidies to remain in place, as Nicola Willis predicts unemployment to tick up | The Post (paywalled)
- Who’s feeling job market recovery? And where has downturn hit hardest? | RNZ
- Trained neurologists quitting NZ due to lack of jobs and funding, experts say | RNZ
- Retail pay barely budges amid ‘tight margins, sluggish consumer confidence’ | 1News
Opinion
- Editorial: Luxon’s impotence makes him prime minister in name only | The Post (paywalled)
- I voted National last time. This time I’m listening to Opportunity | Stuff
- Men are tripping over their alphahood in the year of the Bro Election | Stuff
(Workers First interviewed in video in the story)