Labour Market Issues
“ANZ’s commitment to the New Zealand public and its workforce is in question again today following further restructuring at a bank which made a $1.1 billion profit off New Zealanders last year,” Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly said today.
"Older workers are an essential part of our workforce, and will increasingly be so as people work longer due to better health and for the social and economic benefit from work,” Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly said today, welcoming the release of “Valuing Experience: a practical guide to recruiting and retainin
“Workforce shortage issues will continue in the rural sector unless farmers and growers start to develop long term strategies for growing their own workforces,” Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly said today.
“Calls by wine industry employers for even more government support to help them train Pacific workers to do the low paid jobs they offer are outrageous, in the light of recent stories of the appalling treatment of these workers,” Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly said today.
“Increasing workers’ skills is at the heart of economic transformation and unions are pleased to be working with others on a national skills strategy,” Council of Trade Unions secretary Carol Beaumont said, following the launch of the New Zealand Skills Strategy Action Plan.
The CTU has today congratulated both the EPMU and Dairy Workers' Union on the launch of the Centre for High Performance Work.
“Supporting workers to improve their skills in language, literacy and numeracy is critical to building the high wage, high skill economy that everyone wants, and the budget’s significant allocation of $168 million over four years to roll out the Skills Strategy is a big vote of confidence for workplace learning,” CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said today.
The Council of Trade Unions has called for an active approach to finding jobs for meat workers being made redundant, following a further announcement today by PPCS, this time in relation to their Burnside site in Dunedin.
“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.
“The CTU endorses the recent vote by Meat Workers Union delegates in support of the proposal for a new entity to control meat procurement and marketing.”
"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.