The workers strike back! BK, Wendy’s, Event Cinema workers take action
This weekend it is likely that you will see workers at Burger King, Wendy’s and Event Cinemas taking action to bring an end to their status as part of minimum wage industries as well as to protect or establish margins for skill and service.
Read More →Unite to picket Wendy’s Dominion Rd, Auckland store 5pm tonight despite injunction
Supporters are being asked to come along and show that support outside the company’s Dominion Rd, Auckland, store tonight from 5-7pm.
Read More →Why Wendy’s workers are striking
Wendy’s workers will be gathering outside the Te Atatu Wendy’s store at 7.30pm tonight to explain why they are striking to media and supporters.
Read More →A simple idea – how farmers can pay for their own problems
It’s going to cost the government at least $600 million to clean up this mess over the next decade
Read More →EVENT Cinemas attempts to cut 10% of Cinema Workers wages in strike action
Unite Union was informed by Event this morning that they will attempt to take 10% off workers wages who participated in a partial strike at the Albany cinema last Wednesday. Event Albany cinema workers had organised to not sell any food and drink to customers for the Star Wars Han Solo midnight screening. This followed […]
Read More →More strikes planned for Event Cinemas this weekend – Unite
Unite Union has authorised a window of industrial action across Event cinemas up and down New Zealand again today, following on from the success of Wednesday nights’ strike on the midnight screening of Star Wars movie Han Solo. This industrial action will run from Friday night until Sunday night during the opening weekend of this […]
Read More →Star Wars Film to face strike action tonight at Event Cinemas
Tonight, Unite Union advises Star Wars fan to go elsewhere instead of Event cinemas for the midnight premiere of Han Solo. Union members have voted to authorise strike action over a low offer of wages from the company. Asina Crawford, a cinema attendant and university student from St Luke’s in Auckland says “When I go […]
Read More →Wendy’s impose cut in rostered hours for union members
Unite members are balloting on whether to authorise strike action and the union believes the company is trying to intimidate staff. “This is a vicious attack on the very limited income these workers already receive,” says Unite Union National Director Mike Treen. “The company is claiming they have to do this because the collective agreement has expired. This […]
Read More →Union leader Mike Treen to join flotilla to Gaza in July
Mike Treen spoke with acclaimed US/Palestinian author Dr Baroud who is currently on a speaking tour of New Zealand on why he is going on the Flotilla to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. (See link below)
Read More →Budget 2018 – Fiscal restraint and state housing – ideological craziness exposed
The government has decided to increase the building of state housing from their extremely modest target of 1000 a year to the still very modest target of 1600 a year over the next four years.
Housing NZ is not being given any extra money to do this.
They will have to borrow on private financial markets at higher rates than the government can borrow money for.
The cost to the government will be more as a result.
Read More →Wage and time theft endemic – and could get worse
Workers have been cheated for 15 years. But it seems that companies are only being required to go back six years to calculate repayments. Why?
Read More →The Liberal Agenda – STALIN WASN’T STALLIN’ – WRITERS FESTIVAL CABARET
WHAT: Auckland Writers’ Festival
WHEN: 15-20 May
WHERE: Aotea Centre
Unite accuses McDonald’s of wage theft
Unite Union has accused McDonald’s of deliberately denying many workers their legal entitlement to an alternative holiday or lieu day for working a public holiday, or alternatively denying workers pay for a public holiday when they were entitled to it. “From wage and time records we have received and analysed, it seems clear that on […]
Read More →Wage theft at Maccas – $1 million a year in lieu days or public holiday pay
It has been over three years since we first wrote to the company questioning how they calculated annual leave and asking them to fix it. At first, they simply ignored or rejected our arguments out of hand. We then applied for an Employment Relations Authority hearing on the issue.
Read More →Open letter to new Government: How to find $36 billion for health spending and lower ACC levies at the same time
I explained a few weeks ago that the government had $36 billion in an investment account that could be taken and used to fund the desperate improvements we need in the health sector. They could do this without breaching their self-imposed fiscal responsibility rules.
Read More →Stolen holiday leave needs repaying now says Unite Union
Unite Union wants answers from the government as to why hundreds of thousands of workers are still waiting to have the annual leave stolen from them in the past restored. It is three years since Unite first wrote to major employers in the fast food industry telling them that they were miscalculating annual leave for […]
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