New reporting highlights how Brooke van Velden refuses to meet with the CTU but is happy to meet with fringe Australian-based unions. Van Velden is pursuing reckless changes to undermine the personal grievance system against the advice of her own officials. Engineering New Zealand are saying that hundreds of engineers are losing their jobs and leaving the country because of delays to infrastructure projects, causing “significant” risk to the country’s development and growth. A new report revealed the financial impact of university fees and unpaid work on workers in female-dominated professions.
Union coverage
- CTU: Personal grievance shake-up risks ‘unjust’ outcomes – officials
- CTU: The Beehive doors are shut to the CTU
- PWU: Posties defy PO box order from NZ Post
Employment
- ‘Devastating’: Hundreds of engineers leaving NZ due to infrastructure delays, CEO claims
- Female-dominated professions struggle to catch up in cumulative earnings
- Wellington trades programme aims to get rangitahi into further training
- Ten week mediation backlog due to government cuts says Labour
- GP earns less than minimum wage after rejecting ‘flawed’ funding system
Politics
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- NZ set to formalise its say over Pacific nations’ security
- Public service to be asked to find more savings
- Minister quizzed on decision for NZ-born teen facing deportation
- Environment was fast-track priority before minister’s intervention
- Tech agencies lawyer up after claim they failed to protect Jacinda Ardern from ‘violence, misogyny’
- Teacher-only days continue after Seymour oversteps, Education Minister says
- Destiny Church protesters ‘went too far’ – Luxon
- Community leaders hit out at Brian Tamaki’s ‘storm the library’ protest
- Whakatāne Hospital obstetrics closure: hīkoi organiser pans ‘deeply dysfunctional’ health system
Te Ao Māori
- Two Moriori ancestors returned to Aotearoa
- What you need to know about Te Matatini 2025 – the ‘Olympics of Kapa Haka’
Economics
- The House: Fighting over growth, forgetting to mention the plan
- Courses at risk with universities expecting Budget funding cut
- Last big cut? Economists expect RBNZ to slow the pace of rate cuts
- Māori businesses perform strongly despite economic hardships
Opinion
- Growth dreams need more than marketing and hope
- Sam Stubbs: How economic growth really happens
- Dying to be heard: National palliative care roles axed