The Pay Equity Challenge
The CTU is committed to action on pay and employment equity on all fronts: political, industrial and campaigning. Unions are not alone in calling for pay and employment equity and the CTU and CTU unions are part of the Pay and Employment Equity Coalition.
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Under Pressure
At least 30% of New Zealand’s workers – over 635,000 people – are in insecure work. We believe it may well cover 50% of the workforce. 95,000 workers have no usual work time, 61,000 workers have no written employment agreement, 573,000 workers earn less than the Living Wage and almost a quarter of a million Kiwi workers say they have experienced discrimination, harassment or bullying at work. 
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Living Wage
As the gap between the rich and the poor grows in New Zealand and poverty increases, more and more New Zealanders don't get paid enough to meet their needs, enjoy their lives and participate in society.
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  • Midwives, like all working women, deserve fair pay

    New Zealand working women are building momentum in their call for fair pay.

    “It is wonderful to see another group of working women, this time midwives, using their collective voice to turn up the volume on the need for their incredibly important work, to be fairly paid by the Government,” said CTU Secretary Sam Huggard. 

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  • Labour's plan to boost skills development refreshing

    The future of work needs to be one where working people have good, satisfying jobs with decent incomes, and Labour's announcements today on boosting skills are welcome, the CTU said today.

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  • Green Party’s plan to boost manufacturing a winner

    Today’s announcement from the Green Party to boost manufacturing in New Zealand is supported by working people.

    “Increasing and improving manufacturing in New Zealand is a specific way to create more quality jobs which is crucial,” CTU President, Richard Wagstaff said.

    4 weeks 8 hours ago
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  • Civil Aviation needs to reconsider aggressive behaviour

    Civil Aviation needs to reconsider aggressive behaviour "Good employers do not prevent those they employee from coming to work. This is exactly what Civil Aviation is intending on doing by "locking out" people who have joined together in union to achieve better terms and conditions at work," says CTU President Richard Wagstaff.

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  • Economic Bulletin 180: 90 day trials – what does the research tell us?

    June 2016

    The Government is in denial over the failure of the 90-day trials. New research commissioned by Treasury found that it did not increase employment or help disadvantaged workers. The Government now denies those were its objectives. Its professed commitment to evidence is selective and doesn’t apply when employers’ interests are at stake.

    7 weeks 9 hours ago
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