News from 2011-08

Fiji Trade Unions Congress president Daniel Urai will go on trial next week (2 September) for holding an ‘illegal' meeting in a hotel. Meetings of the FTUC...

Labour has committed to campaigning on industrial issues for this election, including standing up for workers' rights and repealing the 90-day fire-at-will law. In a hard-hitting speech to...

The EPMU acknowledges with sadness the passing of long serving National Distribution Union Northland organiser Trevor Noel. ‘I knew Trevor for many years' says EPMU national secretary Bill Newson....

EPMU welcomes announcements made this week that will have a significant impact on health and safety in the mining industry. Ged O'Connell, Assistant National Secretary of the EMPU said...

The union representing most underground coal miners and oil and gas industry workers has welcomed the government's high hazards unit as a good start but says more...

More than 850 steel workers employed by NZ Steel at their sites in Glenbrook, Waikato North Head and Taharoa have called a 24-hour strike and walked off...

Friends and workmates farewelled EPMU member Miles Hunter at a funeral service at Woodbourne air base near Blenheim last week (12 August). More than 250 people attended,...

Hundreds of EPMU members, mainly from the plastics and metal manufacturing industries, gathered at offsite meetings last week in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland, leaving standing room only. ‘I...

The Fijian government is clamping down on workers and unions, restricting workers' rights formerly recognised by law and intimidating union officials. According to the NZ Council of Trade...

EPMU national executive member, Remi Emery, a high voltage electrician working for Transfield in Auckland, has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to workplace health and safety at...