If you bought lunch today it’s likely you’ve eaten food they’ve delivered. One of New Zealand’s largest wholesale food delivery companies (that delivers to restaurants and cafes) has just fallen foul of the New Zealand Employment Authority. Bidfood New Zealand Limited, the NZ food arm of multinational heavyweight Bidvest, has been determined to have breached […]
The chaos that is New Zealand’s public transport system deepens this week as hundreds of bus drivers from Auckland, Waikato and Wellington take strike and picket action over harmful pay and work conditions. Around a hundred drivers have taken strike and picket action in Auckland today (23/10/18) while another hundred took strike and picket action […]
Politicians have responded with shock to revelations from forestry and wood processing workers at a symposium on the future of work in the industry. FIRST Union’s Forestry & Wood Processors Symposium 2018 was attended by Union members, delegates and officials, Green Party leader Marama Davidson and Labour list MP in Tauranga Jan Tinetti. The […]
A symposium to start a discussion on the future of work in forestry and wood processing has shown New Zealand is sitting on a mountain of untapped opportunity. The problem is, New Zealand is missing out on an incalculable amount of wealth due to exporting commodities as raw materials, instead of producing a wider range […]
Over 100 bus drivers in the Waikato region had to take strike action today in order to meet to discuss the wage negotiations. Their employer, Go Bus, denied the drivers time away from work to meet regarding facilitated negotiations in Auckland despite the union giving plenty of notice and offering to work with the company […]
Yet another company has returned to the negotiation table following strike action taken by working people, the latest of which is one of New Zealand’s major stationery brands; Winc New Zealand. Half of workers at its Auckland distribution centre were onto their fifth day of strike action this morning when the company finally agreed on […]
