The procedure for registering new union delegates is changing, and you need to know about it.

From now on, when a new delegate is elected, they need to fill out a ‘Delegate Election Form’ that is available on our website here

In 1973 Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel claimed that a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

The Council of Trade Unions (CTU) has launched a YouTube clip and campaign aimed at trying to get the Government to agree to an inquiry into the forestry industry, and to implementing health and safety and employment standards that stop the deaths and injuries of forestry workers.

The procedure for registering new union delegates is changing, and you need to know about it. From now on, when a new delegate is elected, they need to fill out a ‘Delegate Election Form’ that will be available on our website soon, or can be downloaded here.

As this is the last Gossip of the year, here at Gossip HQ we’d like to take this chance to wish you all the best for the festive season.

Many of you will be working through the break, so remember the union’s Member Support Centre is here to help if you need assistance from your union. 

Member Support is open until December 24, closed December 25 & 26, operating (at reduced hours) on December 27, 28 and 31 December, and then back on deck with normal hours from January 3 onwards.

All the very best – we’ll catch you back here in 2013.

It’s been a busy time in the education sector of late.  Our union colleagues at primary and early childhood teachers union NZEI are raising awareness about the big problems with the government’s policy for charter schools.

Charter schools are a bad idea. Allowing unqualified people to teach our kids, companies to make a profit from schools and power being taken away from our local community in running its local school won't help our childrens' education.

 FIRST Union is now one big happy family of the two former unions Finsec and the National Distribution Union.  This month we combined our membership systems.  It was a big project, and as is the case with anything this size there may be one or two bumps along the way.

If you’ve experienced any issues regarding your membership of FIRST Union, then get in touch with membershipteam@firstunion.org.nz for assistance.