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FIRST Union backing 26 weeks paid parental leave

Article Date: 
Friday, May 18, 2012

FIRST Union (grown-ups and babies!) are backing a new campaign to extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks. Labour MP Sue Moroney has a bill before parliament which would take paid parental leave from the current 14 weeks to six months.

Rugby league a family affair for Fagaiavas

Article Date: 
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

FIRST Union organiser Henry Fagaiava combined two of his great loves – sport and family – when his two eldest sons Eric (18), and Johnny (16) joined him on the field for his rugby league team, the Te Aroha Seniors.

FIRST to help save our assets!

Article Date: 
Monday, April 30, 2012

FIRST Union is playing its part in a nationwide campaign to force a referendum on asset sales. FIRST Union and the CTU are part of a Keep Our Assets coalition which aims to get 10% of voters to sign a petition calling for a referendum.

Huge numbers applying for jobs in new supermarkets

Article Date: 
Monday, April 30, 2012

Hundreds of people have been applying for jobs in yet to be completed new supermarkets in a sign that finding a job is still very, very tough. 1300 people have applied for 100 jobs for the new Countdown Dunedin South, while 600 applications have come in for 100 jobs at the new Countdown in Kelvin Grove, Palmerston North.

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Campaigns

Vote Fairness

On 26 November 2011 we all get to have our say in the General Election. Vote Fairness is our campaign to ensure everyone is enrolled and gets out to vote on the 26th – and that we all understand what’s at stake.

Pay Equity Challenge

FIRST Union is a member of the Pay Equity Challenge coalition - a broad coalition of community, employer, union, and academic groups who are committed to putting pay equity issues back on the Government’s, and New Zealand’s, agenda.

Media Releases

Employment law proposals officially signal end to catching up with Australia goal

Date of Release: 
Monday, May 14, 2012

Today’s employment law proposals officially signal the end of John Key’s goal of catching up with Australian wages, a union for low paid workers says.

Jobs massacre see redundancies across the country

Date of Release: 
Thursday, May 3, 2012

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 profits are rising, wages are falling behind

Date of Release: 
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

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.”

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