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Others TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION Te Haut큰 Kahurangi o Aotearoa
The CTU and affiliate unions like the Tertiary Education Union are running a campaign to promote fairness at work.
Happy May Day! May Day, 1 May, is the international day to recognise the rights workers have to to safe, happy jobs, a fair day’s pay and time to spend with family and friends. It’s a day when we recognise the good work unions and union members have done campaigning for things many of us now take for granted – weekends, holidays, a minimum wage, accident compensation and the right to negotiate the working conditions in our workplaces. This May Day we’re asking people to donate some food to those hurt most by the recession. Being part of a union is about helping each other to reach our goals, but also helping others to make sure our community is healthy, strong and inclusive. If you can afford to give food, time or money talk to your local TEU branch president for more details.
In these tough times it’s about putting people in real jobs and, just as importantly, making sure we keep people in jobs. It’s about working together to build strong communities and workplaces where everyone has a fair chance to earn a living safely. Currently the Fairness at Work campaign issues include: • Ending the recently introduced 90 Day ‘fire at will’ law which gives small companies the right to sack new workers without reason within their first 90 days of employment. • Protecting our our publicly-owned accident compensation system. Workers deserve the right be compensated for workplace injuries and accidents. New Zealand’s ACC scheme is world respected and highly cost effective. Cuts to ACC coverage or opening it up to competition could undermine the coverage and protection workers currently have.
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Fairness at work is about the basic rights we all have as workers to respect, safe employment conditions and the chance to spend time with friends and family. It’s about workers working hard, but also knowing our work is respected, fairly paid, safe and family-friendly.
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• Guaranteeing 4 weeks annual leave for all workers. Currently all workers are entitled to four weeks annual leave. If, as the government proposes, one of those weeks is put up for sale, workers with the least bargaining power will lose out. Annual leave is an important chance for workers to spend time with their family, their friends and their community. You can read more at www.fairness.org.nz