International Workers Day – a time for action on Pike River
May 1st is International Workers Day. Across the globe, workers and unions will be celebrating the gains they have made to ensure they have decent pay and Read More
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Health and Safety Act fails to reduce work fatalities
After the Pike River tragedy, New Zealanders realised that workplace health and safety culture needed to change. Last Saturday marked the 6th anniversary of the Read More
National’s Health and Safety Reform Bill: less safety and fewer rights at work
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions is embarking on a campaign to fight the changes that weaken the Health and Safety Reform bill. As Read More
Pike River, two years on
At the Pike River memorial service held at our local racecourse on a hot, still day in the weeks following the disaster, Grey District Mayor Read More
Remembering Waihi and Pike
The Pike River report released this week showed how little progress in health and safety New Zealand has made since the days of the Waihi Read More
Wilkinson resignation only symbolic
On Monday, in light of the Royal Commission report into Pike River, Kate Wilkinson resigned as Minister responsible for the Department of Labour. This was Read More
Unionised workplaces help workers stay safe
Health and Safety at work In the last few weeks five different companies have been convicted in District Courts in Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton, Waitakere and Read More
Long overdue progress made on mine safety
For the last month New Zealand has been reduced to just one inspector of mines person after Kevin Poynter left for Australia. After questioning from Kevin Hague yesterday it turns out there a replacement has been found.
Workers’ Memorial Day
Workplaces are safer when workers and their unions feel confident to address safety issues, and this has not been helped by the National government’s industrial legislation.
Latest Pike River developments a further disaster for families
I think that until now the Government has got most things right in its response to the Pike River tragedy. While they made mistakes, like Read More