Plunket Funding Promise Forgotten in Budget 26
They promised to fund Plunket properly. Then Budget 26 arrived, and the nurses caring for our newborn babies were left waiting again.
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Budget 2026 Care Crisis While Defence Gets Billions
The Government calls this security. Care workers call it poverty wages, broken cars, impossible rent and another Budget that tells them they do not matter.
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Budget 2026 Austerity Is a Misery Budget
Workers First says Budget 2026 is a misery Budget: a crumbling house with fresh paint, built on cuts to students, women, disabled people and public servants.
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New Zealand Right to Strike Backed by ICJ
The world’s top court has confirmed the right to strike is fundamental. The NZCTU says New Zealand’s Government has run out of excuses for stalling.
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NZDF Civilian Workers Must Get Pay Rise From Defence Boost
Defence is getting more money. The people keeping its ships, aircraft and systems running now want proof they will not be left behind again.
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Pay Equity Rollback Taken To The UN
The Government thought it could kneecap pay equity, rob low-paid women workers, fund tax cuts, and move on. The unions clearly have other ideas.
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NZ Pay Equity Rollback Triggers UN Complaint
The Government didn’t just cancel pay equity claims. It cancelled justice for more than 180,000 workers, and now the United Nations is being asked to look.
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UN Complaint Filed Over NZ Pay Equity Rollback
The Government’s pay equity rollback is no longer just a domestic political fight, it’s now the subject of an international human rights complaint.
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Journalists underpaid, under pressure, and leaving the profession
Underpaid, overworked, and walking away — New Zealand’s journalism crisis isn’t looming. It’s already gutting the newsroom.
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Pay Equity Cancelled Cheque Presentation Event To Highlight Impact On Care And Support Workers – PSA
$20,644.45 — that’s what pay equity cancellation cost each worker. Now they’re turning that loss into a public reckoning.
