Photo: Angus Dreaver/ RNZ Note: For a shorter rundown of the Bill, check out our explainers on Instagram and Facebook. Minister Brooke van Velden’s Employment… Read More »Explainer | Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2025
Newly released Government documents reveal the lengths to which ministers went to avoid scrutiny and ignore official advice on their decision to gut the Equal… Read More »Documents reveal Government efforts to avoid scrutiny on pay equity
The NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi is today supporting NZNO members across the country who are striking to push the Government to ensure safe staffing in… Read More »Nurses strike for safe staffing benefits all New Zealanders
NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President Richard Wagstaff has said that today’s release of labour market data shows the continued economic pain that is being felt… Read More »Job decline continues, wages not growing with inflation
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi President Richard Wagstaff has said the union movement is appalled by the Government’s proposed electoral law… Read More »Government engaging in anti-democratic voter suppression
On Saturday 20 September communities across Aotearoa will unite for a Women’s Day of Action for Pay Equity – taking place 132 years after New… Read More »Not Done Yet: Women’s Day of Action for Pay Equity
When the National-led Government passed the Equal Pay Amendment Act under urgency in May this year, they did so without consulting the working women affected.… Read More »Submission guide: Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi is concerned that the artificial intelligence (AI) “strategy” document released today by the Government ignores… Read More »Workers absent from government’s AI “strategy”
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi Secretary Melissa Ansell-Bridges has taken the pay equity fight to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) conference… Read More »Unions take pay equity fight to the ILO
The Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety’s announcement today on gutting WorkSafe’s enforcement capability signals a return to a failed approach, that will weaken our… Read More »Government guts WorkSafe
Dame Marilyn Waring has worked with a group of former women MPs to form the People’s Select Committee on Pay Equity, which will gather evidence… Read More »Tuesday 27 May
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi has sent an open letter to the Government objecting to its decision to block the… Read More »Unions barred from Budget 2025 lock-up