Bargaining between the PSA and Oranga Tamariki over the collective agreement is intensifying – with more strike action likely, while the Employment Relations Authority has ordered facilitation. More than 850 laboratory staff are walking off their jobs in a week of rolling strike action.
Union coverage
- CTU: Confidence in the economy still low despite rising GDP
- PSA: Oranga Tamariki union steps up industrial action, ERA orders facilitation
- E tū: Media Insider: Billionaire and NZME board contender Jim Grenon and journalists’ union E tū go head to head over ‘editorial independence’
- APEX: ‘Brace for impact’: Lab worker strike set to disrupt most of NZ
- TEU: Canterbury polytech Ara proposes job cuts – Union
Employment
- Medical graduates “lost” to NZ
- Stanford professor on hybrid working and why companies should let employees choose
Politics
- Education Minister Erica Stanford learnt about lunch provider’s liquidation through media
- Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier criticises Health NZ Te Whatu Ora OIA policy
- The House: Climate change adaptation – Parliament asks the small questions
- No love lost as Winston Peters and Chris Hipkins trade barbs
- NZ First faithful gather as Winston Peters eyes the campaign trail
- What the Royal Commission really said about the Covid response
Te Ao Māori
- ‘Step backwards’: Uffindell’s equal voting rights bill challenged
- ‘They’re our tīpuna’ – FENZ encourages more marae to get firewise
- Opposition builds to land buy-up for new Auckland cemetery
Economics
- Daily cap on power prices to rise again next month
- ‘Rural backbone’ may be key to economic recovery, but hurdles remain
- From sewage to cosmetics: Land-grown seaweed operation gets different owner and change of focus
Opinion
- A good problem to have?
- Poor performance survey leaves National little room for error
- We need to get real about what our healthcare system can deliver
- Freshwater rules risk restricting vegetable production, and causing vege prices to spike