Press Release – New Zealand Council of Trade Unions The Council of Trade Unions is concerned that today’s consumer price index (CPI) data shows that for the poorest New Zealanders the cost of living continues to rise well ahead of the official headline increase rate of 1.5%. CTU Economist Craig Renney …
The Council of Trade Unions is concerned that today’s consumer price index (CPI) data shows that for the poorest New Zealanders the cost of living continues to rise well ahead of the official headline increase rate of 1.5%.
CTU Economist Craig Renney said “the data presented continues to show faster increases in the cost of essential items, like fresh produce, rent, and childcare. These hit the poorest hardest and demonstrate the need for faster than CPI adjustments to the Minimum Wage, and for higher wage increases for the lowest paid employees”.
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Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 8:32 am
The union representing New Zealand rail workers has
spoken up against the deaths of rail workers under the
Myanmar military dictatorship.
Rail and Maritime
Transport Union General Secretary Wayne Butson says there
have been reports of 15 railway workers, mostly union
members, being shot at the railway compound at Myitnge near
Mandalay, Myanmar, on 14 April 2021.
“The military
dictatorship are waging a vicious war against unarmed
civilians and workers, and New Zealand needs to do all it
can to bring international pressure on them.”
Mr
Butson says the RMTU is backing calls by the New Zealand
Council of Trade Unions to halt the ratification of the
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