Today’s Union News includes coverage of strike action across many sectors including food production, retail, health, and insurance. Public service chiefs have also been instructed to plan for 9,000 job cuts during the election campaign.
Union coverage
- Mates – Hawke’s Bay Watties factory staff go on strike: ‘We’re like the poor cousins who gets paid a little bit less’ | RNZ
- NZNO _ Braemar Hospital staff down tools in pay dispute | Waikato Times (paywalled)
- NZNO – Unused Auckland ICU so ready to go it has sheets on beds and working clocks | RNZ
- PFA – Ban, fine for Auckland FC striker Sam Cosgrove ‘disproportionate’ – players’ union boss | Stuff
- Workers First, NZNO – Tauranga Farmers staff strike for better pay | Bay of Plenty Times
- Workers First – IAG NZ staff strike as 90-day trial clause stalls talks | Insurance Business
Employment
- Public service chiefs ordered to plan 9000 job cuts during election campaign | The Post (paywalled)
- Parties set out starkly different visions for the future of the public service | The Post (paywalled)
- Husband of pastor Helen Verry, who was killed by roller door at church, wants health and safety action | RNZ
- Labour once believed in working people. What happened? – Jonathan Ayling | NZ Herald
- Migrant staff worked up to 98-hour weeks at motel but paid for 40 | 1News
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