Campaign Main

This year’s election is an important one for you and all Kiwi workers.  It will decide what sort of change New Zealand workers can expect over the next few years.

Have you suffered an injury that affects your ability to work?

Are you a union member?

Do you need help to access ACC?

The Union KiwiSaver campaign is all about getting the best out of KiwiSaver for union members.

UPDATE, March 2008.  This page is currently being updated with new information.

Through campaigns such as SuperSizeMyPay, unions, students, young workers and their families are campaigning to end youth rates and increase the minimum wage, alongside union campaigns to end low pay in general, win decent pay increases for all workers and achieve a high wage economy.

In recent years union members in New Zealand and internationally are increasingly saying that the important issues for them are not just higher wages, but all the other things that make a quality of life. The union campaign for a quality of life both inside and outside work is called Get A Life!

Unions are campaigning for pay equity to eliminate the gender pay gap between women and men. Pay equity means women are paid the same as men for the same work, and for work of equal value.

The CTU is running a worker education programme on productivity.

Decent Work is essentially the right for men and women to obtain decent and productive work - in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.

Learning Reps are elected by employees to help them get ahead with learning at work. They can advise co-workers on opportunities for learning, work with management on company training plans and, most important, promote training that will build a career for workers.