Union News July 2025

Kmart staff will now be among the highest-paid retail workers after Workers’ First secured a pay deal which they are calling a “gold standard” for… Read More »Tuesday 22 July

The government has released an infrastructure update showing $6 billion of government-funded construction is due to start between now and Christmas, which the opposition has… Read More »Monday 21 July

An Auckland mental health programme catering for people with long-standing or chronic problems will shut down. A year’s-long battle over whether a group of elite… Read More »Friday 18 July

About 500 lab workers employed by medical testing company – Awanui – have settled on a 9.2 percent salary increase after six months of strike… Read More »Thursday 17 July

New Zealand’s construction industry is emerging from one of its toughest periods, with more than 17,000 jobs lost over the past 18 months. Penny Simmonds… Read More »Wednesday 16 July

The TEU is calling the government’s disestablishment of Te Pūkenga a “disaster for regional New Zealand”. ASMS and NZNO have accused Nelson Hospital of booking… Read More »Tuesday 15 July

More than 36,000 Te Whatu Ora nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora have voted to strike for 24 hours of what they say… Read More »Monday 14 July

NZ Post is being told to start over on its consultation process for a proposed business reorganisation after the ERA found it failed to meet… Read More »Friday 11 July

Foodstuffs has confirmed 180 roles at Victoria Park’s New World supermarket will be disestablished after a fire three weeks ago – Workers First have negotiated… Read More »Thursday 10 July

CTU president Richard Wagstaff warned the “light touch” approach in the Government’s new AI strategy would do nothing to protect workers from the serious risks… Read More »Wednesday 9 July

The Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments on whether it should uphold or overturn previous court rulings that four Uber drivers were entitled to be… Read More »Tuesday 8 July

The PSA are saying that months after commissioning a report into sexual harassment, Corrections has not moved fast enough to address its “old boys club”… Read More »Monday 7 July