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  • Flight attendants fight Air NZ

    The Spark June 2009 Air New Zealand flight attendants working for Zeal 320 Ltd took industrial action beginning in March. After months of unsuccessful negotiations between Zeal and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU), the 240 union members employed as flight attendants decided they had had enough. The workers, most of whom are young Read more

  • Sign the $15 petition

    Workers Party activists collected around 100 signatures for Unite’s campaign for a hike in the Minimum Wage at Auckland’s Otara Flea Market today. Many of the signers remarked how they would personally benefit from raising the rate to $15 per hour – which would result in a pay increase for some 450,000 workers in New Read more

  • Conference report: Workers Resistance 2009

    Workers Resistance conference was held over Queens Birthday Weekend in Wellington. Over 65 people attended the public conference which, for the most part, was held at the Wellington City Library. Themes included both local and international workers’ struggles. The three-day conference started off on the Friday evening with debate between Workers Party National Secretary Daphna Read more

  • Redundant clothing workers – NDU fails to take a fighting position

    Omar Hamed and Jared Phillips The Spark June 2009 The National Distribution Union’s (NDU) main public response to the May 15 redundancy of 186 clothing manufacturing workers employed by Lane Walker Rudkin (LWR) has been to invite workers and supporters to hold cake stalls as a fundraising activity for the redundant workers. Of LWR’s 470 Read more

  • New Zealand government’s RSE scheme: “Brutal racist oppression”

    By Don Franks In a press release on 4 June 2009 the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions deplored the Government’s removal of the minimum wage protection for workers on the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme. “There have been significant examples of unauthorised and unfair deductions from RSE workers’ pay even under the existing regulations,” Read more

  • Official Launch of Unite Campaign for a Living Wage

    Download the petition here. Read more