Today’s Union News focuses on unemployment with pieces on job losses across the motu. Also our media release yesterday on the OCR hike was picked up by Stuff, the NZ Herald, and Newstalk ZB.
Union coverage
- E Tū – ‘Kick in the guts’: Job losses expected to ripple through region after plant’s closure | Stuff
- NZCTU – OCR increase will deepen the damage in an already very weak job market, union says | Stuff
- NZCTU – Reserve Bank defends Official Cash Rate hike says decision reduces need to ‘increase by more later’ | NZ Herald (paywalled)
- NZCTU – Unions say OCR hike will damage job market | NZ Herald
- PSA – As mass layoffs loom, PSA wants limits on agency restructures | Newsroom
- PSA – Almost 50 jobs could go at National Library and Archives, PSA warns | RNZ
- PSA – Public Service Showdown: Nearly 10,000 Workers Prepare to Strike as PSA Demands Fair Pay and Safe Staffing | Waatea News
- Workers First – Woolworths confirms plan to cut from NZ, export 130 customer care jobs | The Post (paywalled)
Employment
- Labour signs pledge to extend living wage to all state sector workers | The Post (paywalled)
- Relying on ‘Temu census’ discounts value of unpaid work | Newsroom
- Apprenticeship numbers hit 15-year low | RNZ
Opinion
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