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March 01, 2018
Summer 2018
Happy New Year! We've got a big year ahead; big employment law changes ; big bargaining and our chance to have more say in the meat industry we are a key part of and contribute to.
January 17, 2018
Merry Xmas and all the things
2017 was a full-on year; we won some big victories, we settled some big agreements and best of all we changed the government. It's time to say thanks to all of you. Our members, our workplace leaders and the many supporters.
December 12, 2017
Change starts now
October 30, 2017
We did this!
A message from our new Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern.
"We have changed the Government. This change didn't come by chance. You made it happen....
Read moreOctober 20, 2017
So now we wait
The election result wasn’t as clear cut as we hoped for. We would have liked to have seen Labour and the Greens with a higher party vote so they could easily form a government. But it’s not over yet. This is MMP, which means that it is not necessarily the largest party who can form the government, but the one that can command the majority in Parliament.
Read moreSeptember 26, 2017
Vote as if your lives depend on it
More than 100 years ago, New Zealand workers helped form a new political party, called the NZ Labour Party. It was formed on 8 July 1916 by unions of the early 20th century as a political arm of workers. It came after earlier attempts to organise industrially, particularly by the miners at Waihi and the murder of unionist Frederick George Evans. What's changed?
September 19, 2017
After 2.5 years AFFCO workers win final appeal
The Supreme Court has dismissed AFFCO Talleys final appeal to the Supreme Court and agreed that hundreds of AFFCO workers were unlawfully locked out.
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September 08, 2017