Mentions of New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union in New Zealand Parliament debates
New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has been mentioned in 65 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Electoral (Administration) Amendment Bill (No 2)
Third Reading 10 Aug 2011
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... The only thing I asked the Minister to do in the context of the Committee stage was to confirm that the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union had supported the addition of Supplementary Order Paper 262, which resolved an issue around adjoining electorates in ...
In Committee 9 Aug 2011
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL ... effective disestablishment of a number Registrar of Electors positions. The restructuring has been challenged by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union in an application for judicial review. We understand that the application, which is currently before the courts, alleges ...
Hon SIMON POWER ... parties. I will not give a legal opinion about the case itself, but I know that the advice I have is that the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union supports the amendment before the Committee. How that will affect other matters I will not be drawn on, but that is ...
Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 28 Sep 2011
Hon HEATHER ROY ... to freedom. It is harder to say it any better than Andrew Little, in his final address as president of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. I quote: “I believe voluntary unionism—true freedom of association—gives the union movement much greater strength and ...
In Committee 16 Feb 2011
DAVID SHEARER ... the problem wrongly. She kept calling the students associations unions, as she might refer to a union such as the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union or the Service and Food Workers Union. Students associations are simply not that sort of organisation. Students ...
Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill
In Committee 14 Dec 2010
Hon JOHN BOSCAWEN
... Brethren, the Catholics, the St John Ambulance, Family First, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, or the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union; it restricts the right of those individuals to spend no more than $300,000 of their own money. But let us put that in ...
... the St John Ambulance, Family First, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, or the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union; it restricts the right of those individuals to spend no more than $300,000 of their own money. But let us put that in ...
Maiden Statements 14 Dec 2010
KRIS FAAFOI ... a special mention. Everyone in Mana is glad that the hoardings are now down! Thanks go to Andrew Little and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. A special mention must go to Paul Tolich, Mark James, and Damon Rongotaua. I say to the general secretary, Chris Flatt, ...
Electoral (Finance Reform and Advance Voting) Amendment Bill, Parliamentary Service Amendment Bill - Second Readings
Second Readings 7 Dec 2010
Hon PETE HODGSON ... badgered, and grumped and harrumphed, through the 1990s on both sides of the House. National members would say the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union had too much say in the Labour Party campaigns, and on the debate went, argy-bargy, back and forth. But it was all small ...
Motions - Pike River Mine, West Coast—Tragedy
Pike River Mine, West Coast—Tragedy 25 Nov 2010
KEVIN HAGUE
... Knowles and the police, the other emergency services and Mines Rescue, the district health board and its staff, the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the Red Cross, the churches of Greymouth, and everyone else who has been involved in providing support.
I want to express ...
... the other emergency services and Mines Rescue, the district health board and its staff, the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the Red Cross, the churches of Greymouth, and everyone else who has been involved in providing support.
I want to ...
Motions - Pike River Mine, West Coast—Explosion
Pike River Mine, West Coast—Explosion 23 Nov 2010
Hon PHIL GOFF ... Mayor Tony Kokshoorn, non-governmental organisations such as the Red Cross, St John, Victim Support, and others, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and local and national companies like Air New Zealand that are offering so much help, I thank you for your efforts. To ...
KEVIN HAGUE ... for the Green Party, we specifically express our thanks to, and our extreme admiration for, the Red Cross, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the company, the emergency services, the Mines Rescue team, and everyone who has so far been involved in providing ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill (No 2) 2010
Third Reading 23 Nov 2010
KEITH LOCKE ... is when everyone is working together. As I understand it, the Pike River mine is a unionised site, under the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. We have picked up from what is happening down there at the moment that the union, the workers, and the management—everyone...
Holidays Amendment Bill 2010
In Committee 17 Nov 2010
Hon TAU HENARE ... is what a week’s holiday is. It does not belong to the Service and Food Workers Union and it does not belong to the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union; it belongs to the workers themselves. Helen Kelly and her mate “Stuart Little” cannot come along and say to workers that ...
Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill
In Committee 29 Oct 2010
Dr CAM CALDER ... of clarification, Mr Chair. We talked about the possible influence of union presidents: possibly the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union’s new president, Andrew Little, and possibly the Council of Trade Unions president, Helen Kelly. I stress that it is “Helen...
First Reading 28 Oct 2010
Hon RODNEY HIDE
...” because the Labour Party is tied to the union movement. The fact that the Labour Party president is the leader of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and the fact that all of Labour’s funding comes from the union movement, means that Labour is boxed in on the wrong side of ...
... is tied to the union movement. The fact that the Labour Party president is the leader of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and the fact that all of Labour’s funding comes from the union movement, means that Labour is boxed in on the wrong side ...
General Debate 21 Jul 2010
JONATHAN YOUNG
... on the extension of the 90-day employment trial period to all employers, the New Zealand Herald reported that the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the National Distribution Union, and others are meeting for a war council tomorrow and Friday. The only thing is that that ...
... 90-day employment trial period to all employers, the New Zealand Herald reported that the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the National Distribution Union, and others are meeting for a war council tomorrow and Friday. The only thing is that ...
Hon TAU HENARE ... Andrew Little’s wage is. I wonder whether it is the wage of a normal, working-class engineer or of a member of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. I bet members that it is not. I bet members that some of the union boys whom I used to know—I know I am supposed to be ...
Employment Relations (Statutory Minimum Redundancy Entitlements) Amendment Bill
First Reading 5 May 2010
DARIEN FENTON ... that this issue will be on the agenda at the next election. I mention them by name: the Council of Trade Unions, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the National Distribution Union, my own union the Service and Food Workers Union, the Dairy Workers Union, the Unite ...
Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill
In Committee 28 Sep 2011
DARIEN FENTON ... union because it failed to hold a secret ballot. But I also understand that the union involved was the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. As a matter of interest, that is the union that represents the miners in mines like Pike River. Dreadful consequences ...
Second Reading 10 Nov 2010
RAHUI KATENE
... it largely reflects current practice. According to Andrew Little, secret ballots are already a core component of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union’s rules, and in his view he presumes that some 95 percent of other unions are the same. Other big unions, like the 14,000-memb...
... practice. According to Andrew Little, secret ballots are already a core component of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union’s rules, and in his view he presumes that some 95 percent of other unions are the same. Other big unions, like the 14,000-m...
First Reading 21 Apr 2010
Dr JACKIE BLUE
... said that it was not necessary as it was already current practice. When the bill was drawn from the ballot, the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union said that it was out of touch and not needed as secret ballots are already practised. That may well be case for the large ...
... necessary as it was already current practice. When the bill was drawn from the ballot, the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union said that it was out of touch and not needed as secret ballots are already practised. That may well be case for the large ...
Energy and Resources
Mining in Conservation Areas—Economic Benefits of Environmentally Responsible Mining 25 Mar 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE
... who support mining in New Zealand. The photograph shows the Hon Damien O’Connor, the Hon Trevor Mallard, and a New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union official standing outside the Rūnanga Miners’ Hall, when Mr Mallard was launching a document about health and safety in ...
... in New Zealand. The photograph shows the Hon Damien O’Connor, the Hon Trevor Mallard, and a New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union official standing outside the Rūnanga Miners’ Hall, when Mr Mallard was launching a document about health and safety in ...
Mining in Conservation Areas—Minister’s Statements 18 Feb 2010
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE ... which of course is run out of the third floor of Parliament Buildings by the Labour Party and is paid for by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. I have nothing to hide. I was not lobbied by the mining company.
Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill
In Committee 25 Nov 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... in respect of the steelworks, it is interesting that, in terms of the ridiculous rate of free allocation, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, which represents most of those steelworkers, told the Finance and Expenditure Committee that it was not impressed by the ...
General Debate 13 May 2009
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... quickly. Lots of volunteers volunteered for my campaign, and I declared every bit of it that was appropriate. The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union declared the rest of it. That member knows that, because he is a member who looked at it. I will turn to Pansy Wong. ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2008
First Reading 11 Dec 2008
NATHAN GUY
... that the soon to be elected, if he has not been already, president of the Labour Party and former member of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union said that it has a 6-month trial period. So I cannot understand why Opposition members are so concerned about this ...
... elected, if he has not been already, president of the Labour Party and former member of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union said that it has a 6-month trial period. So I cannot understand why Opposition members are so concerned about this ...
Second Reading 11 Dec 2008
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... name names. It happened to be the next president of the Labour Party, Andrew Little, and a number of his Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union friends, and I was happy to have that dialogue.
In Committee 11 Dec 2008
Hon PHIL GOFF ... is, and was: was she aware of the criticism of this measure by stakeholders, the Council of Trade Unions, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, FinSec, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, and, most important, the Human Rights Commission, all of whom ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 31 Jul 2008
Dr WAYNE MAPP I withdraw. I can only say that there was a remarkable similarity between the press release sent out by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the words used by the Minister. I guess readers will draw their own conclusions from that. I have to say that when ...
Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Bill (No 2)
Third Reading 31 Jul 2008
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... entirely reasonable that members of trade unions, for example, should be able to contact the lawyer employed by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union or the Dairy Workers Union, to ask for urgent and inexpensive advice on a matter relating to, for instance, the ...
CHESTER BORROWS ... this practice are fairly self-evident. The arrangement provides the in-house lawyer’s employer—say, for instance, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union or Business New Zealand—with easy access to quality and cost-effective legal services for its members. I am pleased to ...
In Committee 29 Jul 2008
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON
... who are in the employment of either employer associations or unions. It became apparent to organisations like the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Business New Zealand that there was a problem, a potential gap, a potential ground for misconduct against certain ...
... of either employer associations or unions. It became apparent to organisations like the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and Business New Zealand that there was a problem, a potential gap, a potential ground for misconduct against certain ...
Second Reading 24 Jul 2008
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... relating to employment. It would be highly unlikely and very, very dangerous for, for example, the lawyer in the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union—whose name is Mr Wilton, I believe—to be giving advice on matters relating to mergers and takeovers, or the law relating ...
New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement Bill
In Committee 23 Jul 2008
KEITH LOCKE ... case, standards for electrical goods—and one chap by the name of Andrew Little, who is the national secretary of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, is quoted here. I note that he is a member of the Labour Party and in some minds is pencilled in to be a future leader ...
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill (No 2) 2007
Second Reading 17 Jun 2008
Hon MARYAN STREET ... others, knowing that this legislation is not retrospective. The case of coalminer John Stone, revealed today by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, was another case in point. In 1991 Mr Stone was buried alive for 20 hours in the cab of his mining vehicle, after the ...
Budget Debate 29 May 2008
LOUISA WALL
... are pushing National to adopt a policy that allows businesses to take KiwiSaver contributions from wages, which the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has calculated could cost the average worker $190,000 in wages and lost interest over their working lives, and which would ...
... adopt a policy that allows businesses to take KiwiSaver contributions from wages, which the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has calculated could cost the average worker $190,000 in wages and lost interest over their working lives, and which ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... love. Here is one that members would not expect. It is one that none of us expected. It is from Andrew Little of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. Andrew Little is almost the leader of the Labour Party. He will be the next Labour leader if Phil Goff does not sew up ...
Budget Debate 28 May 2008
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... cost a lot more this year; I certainly hope it will improve. Just last week we had the debacle of the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union case. The union appeared before the Justice and Electoral Committee advocating strongly for the Electoral Finance Bill, ...
Treaty of Waitangi (Removal of Conflict of Interest) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 21 May 2008
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON
... was aimed at the National Party, although as today’s judgment of Justice MacKenzie on the application of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union shows, it was really a cunning plan by Lynne Pillay to aim it at the foot of the Labour Party. Indeed, that is what happened ...
... National Party, although as today’s judgment of Justice MacKenzie on the application of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union shows, it was really a cunning plan by Lynne Pillay to aim it at the foot of the Labour Party. Indeed, that is what ...
Employment Relations (Breaks, Infant Feeding and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
First Reading 9 Apr 2008
KATE WILKINSON ... … [We have] not seen any evidence that required a new law.” I was also interested to read the press release from the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, which stated: “The old Factories and Commercial Premises Act used to provide for breaks during the working day, but that ...
SUE BRADFORD
... breaks by law, and see this as a long-overdue measure whose time has finally come.
As Andrew Little from the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union pointed out when the bill was first announced, at the moment around 350,000 workers are covered by collective agreements, ...
... see this as a long-overdue measure whose time has finally come.
As Andrew Little from the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union pointed out when the bill was first announced, at the moment around 350,000 workers are covered by collective agreements, ...
Taxation (Annual Rates, Business Taxation, KiwiSaver, and Remedial Matters) Bill
In Committee 12 Dec 2007
CRAIG FOSS ... for a first home. The council lamented how badly New Zealand wages had fallen behind Australia’s. The head of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, Andrew Little, before our committee on other business, recently also noted that. He used the example of how in New ...
Justice
Election Advertising—Publicity 29 May 2008
Hon Bill English Is the Minister aware that the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is planning a workers’ rights advertising campaign focused on this year’s election, and can she confirm that if the ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I am not here to offer legal opinions. The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will have to seek its own legal opinion and, indeed, be guided by the opinions of the Electoral Commission. I am sure ...
Hon Bill English Why is the Minister so sure the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will follow the law, when statements made by the general secretary of that union and Labour Party councillor Andrew ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN The member would do well to listen to my answer. I said if the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union does not obey the law, then the law will follow through in terms of its consequences. The Government will certainly not ...
Hon Bill English Has the Minister reflected on the possibilities that Labour has passed an Electoral Finance Act that would stop the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union from running a workers’ rights campaign, something that anyone would expect that union to be able to do in a democracy—and...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I am grateful to the member for making it clear that, in his view, if the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union runs a programme on workers’ rights, that is a campaign on behalf of the Labour Party and against the National Party. [ ...
Electoral Finance Act—Operation 27 May 2008
Hon PETE HODGSON ... determined what it thinks the word “person” means. The Electoral Commission will decide whether the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, or any other union, is or is not a third party. That union is of the view that, whether it is or it is not, it will be ...
Electoral Finance Act—Third Party Registration 10 Apr 2008
Hon Bill English ... and responsibilities as ordinary Labour Party members, and was it the Government’s intention that unions such as the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union—whose members are automatically members of the Labour Party—should be able to register as a third party?
Hon ANNETTE KING That is very much a matter for the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union.
Hon Bill English Does the Minister agree with the secretary of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union that it keeps close liaison with the Labour Party through the transport and industrial relations caucus committee, that ...
Hon ANNETTE KING The decision on whether the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, or any other union, or Federated Farmers, or David Farrar—the front for the National Party—is registered as a third ...
Hon Bill English ... banned from registering as a third party, and therefore Labour intends to spend about another $500,000 by getting the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, the Service and Food Workers Union, and the Dairy Workers Union, plus Young Labour, Labour’s rainbow branch, and any ...
Hon Bill English ... organisations in order to escape the electoral expense cap, and the first third party that has been registered is the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union—of which, by the Labour Party’s own definition, every member is a member of the Labour Party, and the leadership of which ...
Hon ANNETTE KING No, and I cannot be assured that the first party that registered as a third party was the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. According to the Electoral Commission, the first person who registered was Anthony John Gavigan.
Electoral Finance Act—Third Party Registration 8 Apr 2008
Hon Bill English Is the Minister aware that the Electoral Commission’s ruling last week to allow the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union to register as a third party means that groups such as Young Labour, Rainbow Labour, and every Labour Party electorate ...
Hon Bill English —so why did Labour take it off the website—about the links between it, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and the Service and Food Workers Union, when it deletes information from Labour’s website detailing how closely tied ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Minister's Statement 16 Aug 2007
Hon Bill English
... and who has read the papers and actually understands the bill—for instance, the provision that means that if the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has one single member who is under the age of 18, it will be banned from registering as a third party and therefore cannot ...
... papers and actually understands the bill—for instance, the provision that means that if the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has one single member who is under the age of 18, it will be banned from registering as a third party and therefore ...
Minimum Wage (New Entrants) Amendment Bill
In Committee 15 Aug 2007
KATE WILKINSON ... value their staff are providing warrants a higher level of pay. I was interested to listen to the submission of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. In its submission it advised that none of its members receive the youth rate, at all; in fact, they all received above ...
Electoral Finance Bill
In Committee 4 Dec 2007
GERRY BROWNLEE ...uption] The brains trust from Wanganui says: “Well, the unions have to declare who they are.” So we see the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union up there, and apparently that gets past the anonymity thing. Well, I do not know, and no one in this Chamber knows, where ...
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
LYNNE PILLAY
... the changes, and was especially pleased that the issue of secret trusts and anonymous donations had been tackled. The New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union said that the Electoral Finance Bill brings better democracy and ensures that the democratic process is open to all New ...
... pleased that the issue of secret trusts and anonymous donations had been tackled. The New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union said that the Electoral Finance Bill brings better democracy and ensures that the democratic process is open to all New ...
First Reading 26 Jul 2007
SIMON POWER ... the Post Primary Teachers Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Council of Trade Unions, and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union all limited, in any one calendar year, in terms of what they can say, what they can print, and the message they can convey,...
Taxation (KiwiSaver and Company Tax Rate Amendments) Bill
First Reading 17 May 2007
CHRIS TREMAIN ... that employer contributions are being taken into account in the current wage and salary bargaining campaign by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is that the decision to allow the scheme right now is optional. It is optional, and because it is optional, it can be put ...
Second Reading 17 May 2007
CHRIS TREMAIN ... will be taken into account in wage and salary bargaining, as is the case with the current campaign by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. That is what we were told yesterday. The problem is that there are a couple of key things. The first point in that ...
Aviation Security Legislation Bill
First Reading 20 Mar 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... been resolved. The airline had wanted to contract the work to Spanish company Swissport International, causing the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union to take action to the Employment Court. It alleged that Air New Zealand acted in bad faith regarding consultation over ...
Third Readings 23 Nov 2006
Dr PITA SHARPLES
... a particular interest in. It was because of our interest in safety matters that we took up the advice offered by the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and suggested an amendment to remove the ability of the Electrical Workers Licensing Board to issue practising licences to ...
... It was because of our interest in safety matters that we took up the advice offered by the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and suggested an amendment to remove the ability of the Electrical Workers Licensing Board to issue practising licences ...
Energy Safety Review Bill
In Committee 21 Nov 2006
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... licensing of electrical workers and employer licences”. This amendment was suggested in the public submission of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union to the Commerce Committee. The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is New Zealand’s largest trade union, ...
Hon HARRY DUYNHOVEN
... but still require the same high levels of competency of workers. There had been some discussion—and this is what the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and many in the industry argued strongly against—about dispensing with the concept of employer licences. This was a matter ...
... high levels of competency of workers. There had been some discussion—and this is what the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and many in the industry argued strongly against—about dispensing with the concept of employer licences. This was a ...
Second Reading 16 Nov 2006
TARIANA TURIA ... that employers may use less trained and experienced people, thereby placing other workers and the public at risk. The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union does not support the proposal for the board to issue employer licences whereby employers can hold practising licences, ...
Labour
Mine Safety—Underground Mines 7 Jul 2011
Darien Fenton Does she stand by her decision, outlined in a letter dated 12 November 2009 from her department to the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, which states “The Minister considers that the existing legislative framework under the Health and Safety in Employment ...
Darien Fenton ... seek leave to table the letter I just quoted from the Department of Labour to the heath and safety coordinator of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, dated 12 November 2009.
Employment—Workplace Access for Union Representatives 19 Aug 2010
Keith Locke ... union bias to deny union access to the workplace, such as happened in 2004 when the Exclusive Brethren denied the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union access to represent migrant workers under a loophole then in the Employment Relations Act, which was later closed?
Employment, 90-day Trial Period—Prime Minister’s Statements 5 Aug 2010
Hon KATE WILKINSON ... woman rejected for work because of the job her partner did. I have also seen reports of a union worker sacked by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union because he belonged to the ACT Party. All three of those cases can be laid at the feet of the Labour Party and its ...
Telecom New Zealand—Employment Contract Advice 26 Aug 2009
Sue Bradford ... Union executive this week because, according to the Minister’s office, the Telecom workers who belong to the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, another union, are on strike; and will she be applying the same principle by, for example, refusing to meet with any ...
Minimum Wage—Labour, Department 7 Sep 2006
Dr Wayne Mapp
... who apparently thinks Mr Taito Phillip Field paid $20 an hour to the Thai workers, or Andrew Little, President of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, who accepts the truth of the Ingram report that Mr Field’s gross underpayment was unacceptable and they are finding a new ...
... Taito Phillip Field paid $20 an hour to the Thai workers, or Andrew Little, President of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, who accepts the truth of the Ingram report that Mr Field’s gross underpayment was unacceptable and they are finding a ...
Prime Minister
Economy—OECD Ratings 1 May 2007
Sue Bradford
Does the Prime Minister agree with Andrew Little, the Secretary of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, that manipulation of the cash rate is a “blunt tool” that is making it only harder for average New Zealanders to afford to ...
Does the Prime Minister agree with Andrew Little, the Secretary of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, that manipulation of the cash rate is a “blunt tool” that is making it only harder for average New Zealanders to afford ...
Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 31 Aug 2006
Dr Don Brash Has the Prime Minister seen the comments made by Andrew Little, national secretary of the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, who stated that MPs are in a position of integrity and trust, and that Taito Phillip Field should resign; what is her ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2006
Second Reading 30 Aug 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... from bringing in contractors to do the work of the locked out workers. The National Distribution Union and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union are filing on behalf of workers who service up to 150 Countdown, Foodtown, and Woolworths stores—that is, about half of ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures) Bill
In Committee 13 Dec 2005
Hon BILL ENGLISH
... will end up being worse off. Many of those who have benefited from campaigns like the “5 in 05” campaign run by the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will be no better off. They are starting to signal that to their elders and betters in the union movement, who have been ...
... off. Many of those who have benefited from campaigns like the “5 in 05” campaign run by the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union will be no better off. They are starting to signal that to their elders and betters in the union movement, who have been ...
Finance
Budget 2008—Government Spending 17 Apr 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... goods, because it is the only way that we can succeed. I would be happy to talk to people about that, because the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, which is part of the Labour Party, in terms of affiliation—as the member likes to point out—has worked for a long-time ...
KiwiSaver Scheme—Reports 22 Feb 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN
... will lead to an increase in their retirement savings. I have also seen reports from the country’s largest union, the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, saying that it is prepared to include employer contributions to KiwiSaver as part of, rather than in addition to, its wage ...
... in their retirement savings. I have also seen reports from the country’s largest union, the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, saying that it is prepared to include employer contributions to KiwiSaver as part of, rather than in addition to, its ...
Wage and Salary Increases—Finance, Minister's Statement 15 Jun 2006
John Key ... the Council of Trade Unions says that his call for wage restraint is “unfortunate and misplaced” and the Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, which is affiliated to the Labour Party, says that calls for wage restraint are out of order and that it is pressing on ...
Air New Zealand—Engineering Outsourcing 8 Dec 2005
SUE BRADFORD What advice will the Government, as majority shareholder in Air New Zealand, seek on proposals from the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union regarding Air New Zealand’s engineering capacity, which are due to be presented today?
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I have been advised by the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union of its proposals. I would expect the board to advise me of its response. As a general matter of good employment relations ...
Sue Bradford ... ask Treasury and the Ministry of Economic Development to compare Air New Zealand’s proposals with those from the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union from a national interest so they might help the Government decide, in a positive light, about the union’s suggestions?
Address in Reply 22 Nov 2005
DAVE HEREORA ... her success in that campaign. I would like to thank our unions, particularly the Service and Food Workers Union, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, and all the unions associated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, for their help and assistance, not only ...