Category: New Zealand NGOs

Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: COVID-19: Ten checks for a safe return to work on Tuesday

Today the Council of Trade Unions has released simplified guidance for people going back to work on-site when New Zealand enters Level 3 on Tuesday the 28th of April. President Richard Wagstaff says that the guidance has been put together to provide working people with clarity about what a safe worksite looks like at Level 3.

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Ecomomic Bulletin: The COVD-19 lockdown edition

I very nearly didn’t write this. All month I have been thinking of angles or important things to discuss – only to find a day later – events had overtaken. Anyone remember the call to suspend the minimum wage increase?

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: CTU welcomes Government investment into infrastructure

“The Government’s announcement that an
additional $12 billion capital will be available to address backlogs in our
deteriorating schools, hospitals and rail infrastructure and for regional
development is welcome news and sensible policy”, says CTU Economist and
Policy Director Bill Rosenberg. “This increase is greatly needed. After a
long period of neglect we have fallen well behind and this investment is
significant. It makes sense given government debt levels are low and its
borrowing is currently very cheap.”

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Working for a better future of work

I finish ten wonderful years as CTU Policy Director and Economist at the end of the year. In the new year I’ll be working part time for the CTU on the ‘Future of Work’. So it is a good time to look at what the Government is doing in this space.

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: CTU releases agenda to achieve a just transition

The Council of Trade Unions has today set out
its agenda for climate and just transition policies for 2020 and into the new
parliamentary term after next year’s election, with the release of ten key
actions for government to pick up.

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: The union pay premium, 2019

In July, the Centre for Labour, Employment and Work (CLEW) at Victoria University released their annual analysis of collective employment agreements (CEAs). It shows again that people who are part of a collective get better pay rises: the union pay premium.

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Company profits rising, wage shares falling

In June, Statistics New Zealand published data from its annual Annual Enterprise Survey (AES) which shows company profits, wages and salaries paid, and many other details of companies in the commercial economy. It shows a falling share of income going to wage and salary earners, along with increasing company profits which are even stronger when capital gains (the revaluation of their assets) is included.

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Fair Pay Agreements and the retail sector

Last Tuesday the CTU launched a report by economist Dr
Ganesh Nana on the evidence as to the impacts of industry (or sector)
collective bargaining. We commissioned the study to promote Fair Pay Agreements
which the Government is currently considering. Fair Pay Agreements aim to form
a floor of wages and conditions for an industry, and to advance industry
training.

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: Fair Pay Agreements will make working life better for all Kiwis

The Council of Trade Unions has today released an independent report conducted by economic research company BERL into the validity of sector bargaining. And the findings are clear – there is no economic reason not to implement sector bargaining but many social and individual wellbeing reasons to do so.

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Source: Council Of Trade Unions (CTU) – Press Release/Statement:

Headline: The CTU Budget Report 2019

The Government describes it as a Wellbeing Budget and has taken a different approach to the way funding has been prioritised, including stating five Budget Priorities last December. We have therefore not only assessed it in the usual way by each of the main Budget areas (by ‘Vote’) but include an assessment as to what it has achieved for ‘wellbeing’.

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