Industrial action

The Council of Trade Unions today criticised NZ Bus for implementing a complete lockout of all workers after just one hour of strike action.

“This is employer militancy against low paid workers and clearly the employer is hoping to starve these workers back to work,” CTU President Helen Kelly said. 

“The current high profile industrial disputes mask work stoppages figures which remain very low,” CTU president Ross Wilson said, following the release of latest figures by Statistics NZ today.

"Service and support staff in hospitals are some of the lowest paid workers in the country and by locking out hundreds of hospital workers Spotless Services are taking on the whole 350,000 strong union movement,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today.

“This is the action of corporate bullies who have a callous disregard for these low paid workers and their families,” CTU president Ross Wilson said tonight.

“Amcor Flexibles should immediately end its lockout of more than 50 factory workers in Auckland and get back to the negotiating table,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today.

"Most of the 2,000 plus collective employment agreements were settled last year without the need for industrial action," CTU president Ross Wilson said today.

"Employers who are unrealistic about the need to address New Zealand’s low wage crisis will continue to see workers exercising their right to take industrial action in support of a wage claim," CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said today.

“Canterbury District Health Board’s call for the abolition of the right to strike for health workers is childish and grandstanding,” CTU president Ross Wilson said today.

"Work stoppages remain historically low, with the vast majority of employment agreements settled without industrial action," CTU president Ross Wilson said today.

CTU president Ross Wilson today thanked the many thousands of New Zealanders who supported the workers locked out by Progressive Enterprises over the past four weeks.