NZEI is seeking to take stalled pay talks to urgent facilitated bargaining at the Employment Relations Authority. New Zealanders are in favour of the the ultra-rich being taxed more to fund healthcare, housing and climate action, a new poll shows. The Government ignored official advice opposing its "move-on" orders for homelessness.
Union coverage
Employment
- Ministry underestimated scale of secondary teacher shortage
- New Zealand redraws open work visa conditions
- Labour changes tune on welfare claw backs
Politics
- New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows
- Christopher Luxon forced into another correction over Iran war visas
- Government 'talking to everybody' over Kiwis caught up in Middle East war – Peters
- Government pushed ahead with move‑on orders despite officials' warnings (paywall)
- Scientists say key systems missing from Emergency Management Bill
- Auckland mayor objects to 'expensive' housing plan request
- Another rare Māui dolphin dies as court challenge looms (paywall)
Te Ao Māori
Economics
- NZ has 'healthy stock levels' of fuel – MBIE
- Why stocks are acting so weird about a spiraling war with Iran
- Global dairy prices continue to rise in wake of Middle East conflict
- Generational shift sees younger investors choosing managed funds over property
- Budget 2026: Nicola Willis' economic recovery at risk from oil price spike, Strait of Hormuz crisis (paywall)
Opinion
- The original sin at the heart of KiwiSaver (paywall)
- Transpower posts $72m profit as grid costs and power prices climb (paywall)
- The troubling legacy of the overturning of pay equity agreements (paywall)
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