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- THE UNIONIST: Warmer, healthy homes; meat industry workforce deserve certainty
The Council of Trade Unions has welcomed a Green Party pre budget announcement this week of $50 million to go towards insulation of state housing, writes The Unionist this week. <more...>
- State housing insulation will have great health and income impacts
The Council of Trade Unions has welcomed a Green Party pre budget announcement today of $50 million to go towards insulation of state housing.“There are so many reasons why investing in healthy and warm homes is beneficial to low income families in state houses,” CTU vice president Maori Sharon Clair said. <more...>
- Redundancies show meat industry needs to get moving on merger talks - CTU
“The meat processing industry owes it to its workforce to get back to the table on discussions for a meat industry merger,” CTU secretary said today, following redundancy announcements by PPCS at its Oringi plant. <more...>
- THE UNIONIST: Wages, Burma, Rail buy back, and views from across the ditch
The Council of Trade Unions says that rises in workers’ wages are welcome, but they are not being felt universally and they need to keep on rising. <more...>
- Joint call by CTU and National Council for the Union of Burma for generous support to Burma cyclone relief
The President of the CTU Helen Kelly and the Director of the New Zealand Office of the National Council for the Union of Burma, Naing Ko Ko today jointly called on New Zealanders to give generously to Burma cyclone relief. <more...>
- Wages need to keep rising – CTU
The Council of Trade Unions says that rises in workers’ wages are welcome, but they are not being felt universally and they need to keep on rising. <more...>
- THE UNIONIST: Skills, action on child poverty and May Day celebrations
Lifting the nation's skills tops the agenda of this week's issue of The Unionist, as well as a new report on child poverty, May Day and the Emissions Trading Scheme. <more...>
- ETS Scheme needs to be amended - unions
Climate change policy should be broad-based and not rely too substantially on market-based mechanisms such as emissions trading, the Council of Trade Unions said in its submission to Parliament. <more...>
- Increasing workers' skills is at the heart of economic transformation
"Increasing workers' skills is at the heart of economic transformation and is key to lifting New Zealand's productivity. A concerted effort to take a wider look at skills development beyond routine training issues is welcome," Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said today. <more...>
- CPAG commended for keeping child poverty issue at the forefront
“The Council of Trade Unions commends Child Poverty Action Group for their persistent work in keeping child poverty in the public domain and on everyone’s agenda,” CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said tonight, following the release of CPAG’s latest research report. <more...>
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