Industrial Action
Growing discontent over low wage growth - unions
With rates, rents and bills showing no signs of abating, unions say staff are increasingly considering strike action to get a meaningful share.
Timber workers strike over 'miserly' offer
About 200 workers have walked off the job at a Napier timber mill in a 24-hour strike.
Talley's ordered to pay $144,000 to MWU
South Pacific Meats, which, like AFFCO is part of the Talleys Group of companies, has been ordered to pay $144,000 to the Meatworkers union in penalties for repeatedly breaching the union's right of… Audio
Auckland bus drivers vote for further industrial action
Striking Auckland bus drivers have voted overwhelmingly to take further industrial action - though it won't be before Christmas. Audio
CTU urges Maori farmers to back meatworkers
The Council of Trade Unions is urging Maori farmers to withhold their stock from meat processing giant AFFCO in a bid to restart contract talks.
MBIE staff strike over work conditions
More than 1000 government workers have gone on strike for two hours to protest about work conditions at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
New Zealand History
Paul Maunder talks about the centenary of the miners' strike in Blackball. Audio