Today’s Union News includes an interview with President Sandra Grey on The Daily Blog, more failures in the health system, the Netball Players’ Association being blindsided by Netball NZ, and another in-depth piece on pay equity from The Post’s Andrea Vance.
Union coverage
- NZCTU – Why Are NZ Workers Living in Cars? with NZCTU President Sandra Grey – The Daily Blog (YouTube interview)
- NZCTU – National’s attacks on Chlöe Swarbrick have gone too far – Heather du Plessis-Allan | NZ Herald
- NZCTU – Political ad expert rates parties’ flashy campaigns | Q+A with Jack Tame (YouTube video)
- NZNO – Rotorua Hospital Emergency Department nurses declare state of emergency | NZ Herald
- NZNO – Andrea Vance: Pay equity ‒ there’s a word for this. Starts with C… | The Post (paywalled)
- NZNPA – Netball NZ pulls the pin on proposed Mowbray-Williams private league | RNZ
- NZNPA – Netball NZ: CEO Jennah Wootten says public fallout from axing private domestic competition is ‘deeply regrettable’ | NZ Herald
- PSA – Crown Law uproar: Union threatens country’s No. 2 lawyer with legal action | The Post (paywalled)
- Workers First – Red and green agree on fair pay agreements. The missing piece is Opportunity | The Post (paywalled)
- Workers First – 300 Ikea staff to ramp up industrial action with 24-hour strike on Sunday | NZ Herald
Employment
- Boss ordered to pay $47k after visa threats and abusive texts | Stuff
- Revealed: What the FMA agreed to pay its departed chief executive | Stuff
- Builder told worker to sort own tax over visa status before serious work fall | Stuff
- ‘People are losing their own voice in the recruitment world’: AI no help in a tight labour market | The Post (paywalled)
- A message for the shopping season: Being abused at work is not ‘part of the job’ | The Post (paywalled)