As unemployment is again on the rise, a recent wave of actual or potential job losses has a union with members in textiles, wood and food processing calling for the government to own up to the problem facing our manufacturing industries and the workers within them.
ANZ National’s 13% increase in profit for the year to March exposes the bank’s unwillingness to invest in their own staff, says the union representing bank workers.
“ANZ National’s profit pie keeps getting bigger,” said FIRST Union Finance Secretary Andrew Casidy. “But the slice for their own workers gets smaller and smaller.”
Combined bank after-tax profits soared to $3.3 billion last year, a figure that FIRST Union Finance Secretary Andrew Casidy describes as problematic in an otherwise sluggish economy.
Plans to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes could come unstuck as a result of New Zealand’s involvement in trade talks – which so far remain in secret.
A union who recently settled an employment agreement with Talley’s AFFCO has hit back at a misleading description of the settlement from the company’s public relations team today.
Retail workers will be pleased to have a couple of their rare guaranteed days off work this Easter, but there is doubt over that break for 2013 with a bill to open up Easter trading still on the political agenda.
