The PSA says potential plans to privatise New Zealand's meat inspection service could put food quality and safety at risk. Industrial action at Napier Port has concluded after one week, with a pay deal being reached in principle for about 185 workers. Academic staff and TEU members at the Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki are fighting back after another round of proposed job and programme cuts. Northland career firefighters are frustrated by their aged and issue-plagued emergency vehicle fleet.
Union coverage
- CTU: FamilyBoost changes expected to increase access to scheme
- PSA: Union warns against meat self-inspection plans
- RMTU: Napier Port: Industrial action ends as pay agreement reached for workers
- TEU: Union fights academic staff cuts (paywall)
- PFU: Whangārei fire crews face challenges with ageing emergency fleet
- E tū: Community support workers among NZ's lowest paid
Employment
Politics
- Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith announces harsher penalties for one-punch attacks
- Opposition reacts to shoplifting crackdown as retailers celebrate overdue changes
- Kainga Ora cuts new developments as the housing crisis escalates
- NZ trailing behind world on cybersecurity laws (paywall)
- Youth MPs stand by original speeches in wake of 'politically neutral' row
- ACT Party tried to get Treaty of Waitangi clause removed from education legislation
- Government urges Pharmac, Medsafe to embrace artificial intelligence
- Youth MPs renew call to lower voting age
- Secrecy surrounds possible triple ministry merger (paywall)
Te Ao Māori
- 'Indescribable loss': Takutai Tarsh Kemp remembered at tangi at Opaea Marae
- Son of late Takutai Tarsh Kemp calls for Māori to register for voting
- Whānau Ora '2.0' launched with new commissioning agencies (paywall)
Economics
- Concerns about energy security prompt hunt for more power
- Foodstuffs North Island warned over likely breach of grocery competition law
- 'We're cleaning up their mess' – oyster farmers want Watercare to deal with sewage overflow
- Revealed: How much supermarket prices have gone up since 2022
Opinion
- The pay equity conversation can't end here (paywall)
- Law change risks tilting playing field against employees (paywall)
- AI will leave a gaping void for a workaholic world (paywall)
- Prices on the rise: Why the cost of living crisis still feels real (paywall)
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