CTU President Sandra Grey challenged the Labour Party at their annual conference to deliver fundamental and systemic change. KiwiRail has been fined more than $200,000 for breaching health and safety laws when an employee fell 10 metres while installing a communications pole. Both the doctors and dentists' union and Health New Zealand say their focus is to get back to the bargaining table to hash out a pay deal. The Waitangi Tribunal has found the Crown's decision to exclude the Treaty from a draft geothermal development strategy would be a Treaty breach.
Union coverage
- CTU: Union head tells Labour party faithful 'the rich' have eaten up our 'pavlova paradise'
- CTU: 'Believe we can win': Labour rallies party faithful
- CTU: Labour rubs hands together at prospect of power and focused spending
- CTU: Women 'working for nothing' from this week
- ASMS: Doctors' union, Health NZ keen to get back to bargaining after failed ERA bid
- ASMS: Hospital doctor owed $1.27m in annual leave
Employment
- KiwiRail fined more than $200,000 after worker injured in preventable fall
- Mega-polytech's insurance cuts process 'exercise in form over substance'
- Why are we all paid close to minimum wage?
Politics
- Labour offers low-interest loans for GPs to set up new practices (paywall)
- Hawke's Bay Regional Prison to get two high security units, adding 316 beds
- Funding boost for stem cell cancer treatment
- The House: Urgency ends early after voting gaffe
- Chris Hipkins denies Labour MPs are talking to Winston Peters about coalition hopes - but they are
Te Ao Māori
- Leaving Treaty out of geothermal strategy a breach – Waitangi Tribunal
- Māori Queen launches multi-million-dollar investment platform
- Researchers link Māori housing inequities to 180 years of restrictive building laws
Economics
- 'We're basically stuffed': Oyster farmers shut down by another overflow
- One NZ fined $1.1m for not ensuring vulnerable customers had emergency access to 111 (paywall)
- Retirement village demand outpacing supply (paywall)
Opinion
- Barbara Edmonds renews Labour's script: Discipline first, promises later (paywall)
- Inside Labour conference: The pitched battles and open questions as Chris Hipkins asks party to dream smaller (paywall)
- Chris Hipkins signals distance from Te Pāti Māori as new poll shows voters want him to rule out deal (paywall)
- Judith Collins' quiet signal to Christopher Luxon on union relations - Fran O'Sullivan (paywall)
- The anatomy of National's failed coup
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