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 […]
Pay equity has arrived at Toll Logistics, without government or legal intervention, thanks to a new Collective Agreement ratified this week. The signing of a new Global Framework Agreement facilitated by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and logistics giant Toll paved the way for the new Collective Agreement with FIRST Union. Coverage of agreement […]
A new agreement between Foodstuffs North Island (distribution centres) and FIRST Union sets a company-wide precedent for good employment relations within the sector. The big wage win has boosted workers’ confidence and will affect hundreds of the company’s workers. FIRST Union and Foodstuffs North Island have settled a collective agreement covering all of the company’s […]
FIRST Union attended the signing of a unique, global collective agreement with transport, logistics and warehousing giant, Toll. The signing in Singapore last night facilitated by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) on behalf of affiliated unions ensures safe and fair working conditions for the company’s 44,000 employees across 50 countries. FIRST Union is pleased […]
Union members at one of L’Oréal’s distribution centres have won their pay battle …and more. L’Oréal is showing businesses how it’s done in a workers world dominated by the business bottom dollar after workers at its distribution centre in Mangere won the right to be paid a Living Wage following the threat of strike action. […]
I walk into the cafeteria of a unionised site the TV is going, people are sitting eating their lunch, in groups of four or five, some people have music blasting, while a group of older Samoan men play pool. People are wearing beanies and overalls, because I’m at a coldstore. There are some workers wearing […]
Gossip around the water filter just became about the water filter itself. New Zealand’s leading supplier of drinking water to the corporate sector – Just Water – is refusing to negotiate better work conditions. It’s resulted in members commencing full-withdrawal strike action on Thursday 29th March from 4:30 am to 11 pm. FIRST Union spokesperson […]
PBT workers won their first collective agreement after joining FIRST Union in October. The new agreement, a multi-employer agreement between the Transport division and the Couriers division, included three pay increases in the first 6 months of the agreement, the introduction of a night and evening shift payment, the introduction of time and half for […]
A long-running dispute between Foodstuffs and its cold store distribution centre workers has been settled with union members winning conversion rights for the labour-hire workforce across the country. Following 6 days of strike action, a new collective agreement was signed that includes a provision that will see labour-hire staff offered permanent employment with Foodstuffs within […]
