Melissa Woolley

Just 20% of NZ workers belong to a union “Higher trade union density and collective agreement coverage is associated with higher wages and a more even distribution of incomes,” the umbrella union’s policy document reads. “Collective bargaining is also associated with improved productivity,” it says. A 2021 study of 26 European economies, published in the Industrial Relations Journal, found that the “likelihood of productivity increases is significantly (and robustly) higher for workplaces, which fall under a collective agreement”. Wagstaff points out that one of the stated objectives of the Employment Relations Act is to promote collective bargaining, and acknowledging and addressing the inherent inequality of power in employment relationships, while also protecting the integrity of individual choice.

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Instructions for the strikers and their supporters on 23rd.
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ANGELA FOR UPPER HUTT MAYOR

Voting papers are out and I'm refreshed and ready, and, so is my website! www.angelamcleod.nz

#UpperHutt #UpperHuttVotes #TeamMcLeod #nzpol #NZPolitics #LocalGovernment #community #leadership #vote2025

Pae Ora Bill's proposed changes undermine the NZ Disability Strategy Efficiency shouldn’t come at the cost of outcomes. The Pae Ora Amendment Bill threatens accessibility, Māori partnerships, and the health of disabled New Zealanders. Here’s how.

Speaking of health, the proposed Pae Ora legislation changes actively undermine the actions for Health in the NZ Disability Strategy - which were apparently approved by the Minister of Health??

Does Simeon even know what he's doing? Too much AI, not enough facts?

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Come along and support these workers please if you are in Auckland

To express your solidarity and support for these workers, or

Send us a message that we can provide to the workers to know they have your support.

by the current Govt try to take away the small number of remaining employment rights that working people have and use every tactic they can to get there.
What can u do?
Come to Etu Offices, 646 Great South Road Auckland tomorrow,Sunday 8 June at 2pm(conveniently located next to TRT Head Office)

thing we wanted in the recommendations but nevertheless agreed that we would recommend them to our members. Te Roopu Taurima was still not satisfied though.

This is an insight into the future of industrial relations in New Zealand if we don’t stand up and fight back.

Employers emboldened by

these workers and their whanau.

The PSA and Te Roopu Taurima attended independent and confidential facilitation run by an Employment Relations Authority member in Auckland over 4 days.

The Authority member then published recommendations to settle the collective agreement, the PSA did not get ever

order to try and put pressure on the employer to listen to these workers.

It comes after Te Roopu Taurima tried to introduce harsh terms of employment including restrictions on secondary employment and 90 day trials as well as a pay increase that do not address the increased cost of living facing

in response to low level strike action.

This is an oppressive overreaction designed to intimidate and bully these workers and unheard for New Zealand employers to adopt such a hostile tactic in these circumstances.

The strike action is a simple partial strike involving not doing some tasks in

This cannot be the future of industrial relations in New Zealand – stand up fight back!

At 4:13pm yesterday afternoon, the Chief Executive of Te Roopu Taurima Karen Smith told the PSA that she would suspend 38 workers who support people living at Te Roopu Taurima houses without pay for 6 weeks

PSA says disability provider refusing to accept recommendation to settle pay dispute The country's largest kaupapa Māori community disability provider is refusing to accept a facilitator's recommendation to settle a collective agreement, a union says.

PSA says disability provider refusing to accept recommendation to settle pay dispute

And this government says they’re “putting patients first” 🙄

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It's always great starting the day by letting a National Party government Minister (Louise Upston) and her guests know what we think about how she voted to deny pay equity to tens of thousands of women, and a fair number of men.
Maranga ake!!
This was Cambridge today.

People and a dog at NZ Parliament demand pay equity

The sign reads "Bitches for pay equity"
#nzpol #budget2025 @nzpsa.bsky.social

Yeo - ODT

What the Equal Pay Act changes really mean for women OPINION: This is not a policy adjustment—it is a structural demolition of pay equity law, and it will lock in pay discrimination for years to come.

Melissa Ansell-Bridges has published a useful piece examining the pay equity changes in detail and explaining how they are not small policy changes but rather a structural demolition of pay equity law that will lock in pay discrimination for years to come. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

Two signs painted to look like tombstones, one says "here lies pay equality 1972-2025, killed by a one-term govt" and the other says "RIP equal pay for equal work, killed for tax cuts"

Louise and her mum and holding the signs, and the paint is slowly flaking off where it's been held at the edges. It's a very wet day and they're both very wet.

Turns out acrylic paint isn't waterproof in a downpour 😅🤦‍♀️

Providing care is expected of anyone deemed female.
Care work is clinically, technically, psychologically and energetically draining by most people who provide it.

Care work is chronicly understaffed, underpaid, for caregivers/RNs/Drs/whanau.
Care, will in time, become the new currency and value.

Living wage to increase from September 1 The increase will be introduced for employees and contractors of 342 accredited living wage employers

“The 2025/2026 New Zealand Living Wage will rise by $1.15 to $28.95 per hour from later this year.

The increase, which aligns with a 4.2% rise in NZ's hourly wage, will be introduced for employees and contractors of accredited living wage employers and will come into effect on September 1.” #nzpol

Half a million disabled New Zealanders need more assistance Stats NZ data shows the scope of the challenges facing those with disabilities in New Zealand today.

Disability advocate Gary Williams told 1News "lack of housing, lack of job opportunities, people not being able to choose where they live, who they live with" were some of the biggest issues disabled people face.

What do you think of the new Stats NZ data?

Mum got made redundant today and apparently her colleagues who also got made redundant just went "well, Australia here I come"

Science ed funding cuts bite: 'children missing out' Science advocates say thousands of children around the country are missing out on important science education as funding cuts for outreach programmes bite. The last government cut spending on the Unlo...

Got the chance to chat with Kathryn Ryan this morning about the science sector and what ongoing cuts are doing to it. Man, I'd love to go on the radio one day to talk about *nice* things...

Good news everyone! (I sound like the Prof from Futurama😁)

National Day of Action - Fight Back Together Maranga Ake! OCTOBER 23RD. An NZCTU/Reimagining Aotearoa Together Action.

Fight back & stand up for Te Tiriti, Worker's Rights, Pay & Conditions, & quality of life in Aotearoa.

Sir Robert Martin and the way we view disabled people Sir Robert Martin was a survivor of abuse in care who was integral in fighting for an inquiry. He passed away while waiting for redress and an apology.

Did you know Sir Robert Martin? Part of #Disability community in Aotearoa.

In 2019 Robert Martin was 1st person with learning disability in the world to be knighted. Friends held a press conference for journalists to meet Sir Robert. One turned up. One. 😢
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Back office workers support front line delivery! Front line workers need support functions to do their jobs well! I'm so fucking sick of seeing this govt write off all back office work as "dumb stuff" #nzpol

More than half of workers report severe burnout, driven by job insecurity Rates of 'high risk' burnout have more than doubled since December.

Job cuts increase burnout risk 🇳🇿