Mentions of Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Inc in New Zealand Parliament debates
Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota Inc has been mentioned in 44 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Valedictory Statement 27 Sep 2011
SUE KEDGLEY ...today—SAFE, GE-Free New Zealand, the Soil and Health Association, the Safe Food Campaign, the Nurses Organisation, the Service and Food Workers Union, the Charter of Health Practitioners, Alcohol Action, Grey Power, and many others—I could go on and on. I would have ...
Urgency 27 Sep 2011
Hon SIMON POWER ... applied for each and every hour worked, a settlement was reached between IDEA Services Ltd, Tīmata Hou Ltd, and the Service and Food Workers Union. Cabinet has agreed to the settlement, to which the Crown contributes, and this bill will provide the framework for ...
Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Bill
Second Reading 6 Oct 2011
Hon TONY RYALL ... was pleased to support. The bill implements an agreement between the Crown, IDEA Services, Tīmata Hou Ltd, and the Service and Food Workers Union to settle wage claims for employees who sleep overnight at their workplaces while on duty. The bill makes provision for ...
DARIEN FENTON ... running injustice. I acknowledge again the hard work and commitment of the workers in the sector and the unions—the Service and Food Workers Union and the Public Service Association (PSA)—which have been relentless in their determination to see this issue to a just ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... which is very important in regard to the court decisions. But I did want to make the point that John Ryall of the Service and Food Workers Union made the comment—
Third Reading 6 Oct 2011
DAVID CLENDON ... process, but clearly it was a matter of collective bargaining. It was the power of the collective, represented by the Service and Food Workers Union and the Public Service Association, that actually brought this to fruition. Again that clearly represents the importance ...
RAHUI KATENE ... forget about the human dimension to the situation. I congratulate IDEA Services Ltd, Tīmata Hou Services, and the Service and Food Workers Union for their perseverance in doing what they can to improve the conditions for those providing such vital services for ...
First Reading 27 Sep 2011
Hon KATE WILKINSON ... the bill will implement a settlement agreement between the Crown, IDEA Services Ltd, Tīmata Hou Ltd, and the Service and Food Workers Union for the payment of wages to their employees who are employed to sleep overnight at their workplace whilst on duty. The ...
DARIEN FENTON ... contribution tonight by honouring the hard work and commitment of the workers in this sector, including those of the Service and Food Workers Union, Ngā Ringa Tōtā, who, along with the Public Service Association, have pursued this matter over 4 years and through three ...
GRANT ROBERTSON ... In addition to paying tribute to Phil Dickson and the other community support workers, I pay tribute to the Service and Food Workers Union, which is the union from which Darien Fenton came before she came to Parliament. I pay tribute to them because it is ...
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... The Green Party is very happy to support the passage of the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Bill. We congratulate the Service and Food Workers Union—Ngā Ringa Tōtā—in particular, the Public Service Association (PSA), and Mr Phillip William Dickson on their perseverance ...
Hon STEVE CHADWICK ... have the Māori Party members been while this battle has gone on for 5 years? Noticeably absent. I congratulate the Service and Food Workers Union, the PSA, and Phil Dickson, who has taken this issue to court and stayed persistently with the case through several ...
Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
In Committee 16 Feb 2011
DAVID SHEARER ... 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 associations are not like those kinds of ...
Maiden Statements 14 Dec 2010
KRIS FAAFOI ... Labour, especially the crowd who made the big drive up from Dunedin. I say thank you to John Ryall and the team of Service and Food Workers Union members who gave us so much support. Meaole’s Marauders and Marlins, our hoardings team, needs a special mention. ...
Holidays Amendment Bill 2010
In Committee 17 Nov 2010
Hon TAU HENARE ... have the ability to trade one of their property rights? That 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 ...
Hon TAU HENARE ... not to the slimy little Labour Party and union organisers who are stealing money out of their back pockets—like the Service and Food Workers Union, and the $300,000 that they gave to the Labour Party.
Darien Fenton I raise a point of order, Mr Chairperson. For the last week or so that member has made references to the Service and Food Workers Union stealing money from union members and giving it to the Labour Party. I say that that is completely untrue, and I take ...
Hon Trevor Mallard I think you would be aware, Mr Chair, that the person who took offence was the national secretary for the Service and Food Workers Union, and would have been responsible for any such theft. An accusation of theft against a member, even if the accusation was ...
The CHAIRPERSON ... Mr Henare made reference to his own personal knowledge of unions and union activity. As part of that he said that the Service and Food Workers Union had been involved in theft, and that the money was from union funds and had been paid to the Labour Party. Darien ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... number of people who know that both Mr Barker and Ms Fenton have had national secretary responsibilities for the Service and Food Workers Union, and that they would have been the people legally responsible for theft on the part of the union. If there was theft and ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill (No 2) 2010
In Committee 17 Nov 2010
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... on Mr Henare’s member’s bill in respect of a secret ballot for strikes. What Carol Beaumont confirmed was the Service and Food Workers Union position in respect of what union members can do if they do not like the rules that say there must be an open ballot ...
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... the courtesy of knowing they were coming; it does not take much effort to provide that information. As the Service and Food Workers Union pointed out, it has 21,000 contacts involving its union delegates going into workplaces every year, and it just does not ...
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE Members of the Service and Food Workers Union, who lined up one at a time, with the reverend on the end—I cannot remember what his name was—actually went through that ...
Animal Welfare Amendment Bill 2010
In Committee 17 Jun 2010
DARIEN FENTON ... I thought I had better talk about my cat—[Interruption] My hat? No, my cat, Plum. She is a genuine Service and Food Workers Union cat. She was found living under the floor of the Service and Food Workers Union building, but she got the name Plum ...
Employment Relations (Statutory Minimum Redundancy Entitlements) Amendment Bill
First Reading 5 May 2010
DARIEN FENTON ... 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 union, the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, Finsec, the Maritime Union, the Public ...
Employment Relations (Rest Breaks and Meal Breaks) Amendment Bill
First Reading 27 Apr 2010
KEITH LOCKE ... stay with the present law and not proceed with this amendment. John Ryall, who is the national secretary of the Service and Food Workers Union, wrote an article criticising this new amendment. He said that his union made a submission to the Transport and ...
CAROL BEAUMONT ... risk? It is the young workers, migrant workers, and workers for whom English is a second language, for starters. The Service and Food Workers Union said that one of the most common queries it received leading up to this legislation was about workers’ rights to have a ...
Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill
In Committee 28 Sep 2011
DARIEN FENTON ... do the rules of many unions, already require there to be a secret ballot. For example, the rules of my own union, the Service and Food Workers Union, say that any member can call for a secret ballot on anything—not just strike action but any action at all, whether it is ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... Tau Henare in the late 1980s when he was an organiser with the Clerical Workers Union and I was an organiser with the Service and Food Workers Union. We jointly addressed—
In Committee 7 Sep 2011
KEITH LOCKE ... to have secret ballots. That is the situation and that is the way submissions went to the select committee. The Service and Food Workers Union and, I think, the Unite union, put across the idea that in some of the industries they organise, such as fast food ...
DARIEN FENTON ... to change its rules. Unions have to get their members to approve those changes. For the union that I come from, the Service and Food Workers Union, it would involve something like 50 stopwork meetings throughout the country. That means arranging with employers for ...
Hon TAU HENARE ... true! That is what Darien Fenton says. That is what Carol Beaumont says—that it is not true. Well, how is it that the Service and Food Workers Union can give 200K to the Labour Party for the election? Where does that money come from? That is $200,000-odd.
Second Reading 10 Nov 2010
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ...terrible! Oh, is that not absolutely appalling? I compare that with what we heard Carol Beaumont say tonight, and the Service and Food Workers Union repeated it in submissions on this bill. When we asked what would happen to an employee, a member of a union, who did not ...
First Reading 21 Apr 2010
Hon Tau Henare Tell that to the Service and Food Workers Union themselves.
KEITH LOCKE ... negative problems are also associated with this bill, and they have been brought to light by unions such as the Service and Food Workers Union, which says that already employers sometimes try to take injunctions against unions to either prevent or slow up ...
HONE HARAWIRA ... it would support the bill because that is what is happening in the workplace anyway, but we have also heard that the Service and Food Workers Union does not support the bill and that it has criticised the Council of Trade Unions over this issue. We have some concerns,...
Accident Compensation Amendment Bill 2009
In Committee 23 Feb 2010
MICHAEL WOODHOUSE ... of full funding, but just about every single union came to the select committee and said that they did not. The Service and Food Workers Union, the Council of Trade Unions, the Maritime Union, the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, the New Zealand Nurses ...
Second Reading 18 Feb 2010
KEVIN HAGUE ... included the ACC Futures Coalition, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, the National Council of Women, the Service and Food Workers Union, the Maritime Union, the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, the New Zealand Christian Council of Social Services, the New ...
Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill
In Committee 16 Sep 2009
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA ... Ms Beaumont did not turn up; she sent her best friend, Mary-Ann, and Mary-Ann’s partner. Mary-Ann is from the Service and Food Workers Union. What did they do? They turned up and swore. They cursed and swore at the public meeting. What did we do? The Hon John ...
PESETA SAM LOTU-IIGA I just say that the Service and Food Workers Union has a lot of really good, hard workers. They would certainly not accept that type of language and abuse. It is about ...
Social Development and Employment
Sealord Plant, Nelson—Job Losses 3 Mar 2009
Rahui Katene Has the Minister seen the statement from the Service and Food Workers Union that suggests that Sealord may introduce a $70-a-week cut in wages across the board for workers who would otherwise face ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2008
In Committee 11 Dec 2008
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... may be disappointing to members opposite, but how seriously can one take submissions that are just written out by the Service and Food Workers Union on a little postcard, for heaven’s sake? The truth is that these issues were extensively debated. This bill has ...
Maiden Statements 10 Dec 2008
... those who have travelled with me so far on this journey: my colleagues in journalism, my fellow members of the Service and Food Workers Union and the wider labour movement, my Oxfam mates both here and abroad, and numerous party colleagues. I want to single out ...
Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill
In Committee 2 Sep 2008
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... dump another $10 million in costs on that industry. I wonder whether Labour members have gone down to talk to the Service and Food Workers Union about the extra costs, and what that might do for their members’ jobs as a consequence of this bill. When will any Labour ...
Lawyers and Conveyancers Amendment Bill (No 2)
Second Reading 24 Jul 2008
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... of years. It was, in fact, my first substantive legal job. I was acting for union members in a blue-collar union, the Service and Food Workers Union, during the introduction of the Employment Contracts Act, which was a difficult time for those members. I can tell the ...
Budget Debate 29 May 2008
LYNNE PILLAY ... is actually telling the truth, has got it wrong.” I should be careful not to say John Ryall. John Ryall works for the Service and Food Workers Union, and he is a very hard-working man. Tony Ryall got it wrong, according to John Key. Whoops! That was wrong again, and ...
Taxation (Personal Tax Cuts, Annual Rates, and Remedial Matters) Bill
In Committee 22 May 2008
Hon TAU HENARE ... not give it back to the workers? But that is all right, because Lynne Pillay comes from a union background, the Service and Food Workers Union, which is about to steal $200,000 off its own members. Why? It is to employ a political organiser to run around the ...
Employment Relations (Breaks, Infant Feeding and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 7 Aug 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... in this country who still treat their staff like this in the pursuit of the mighty dollar. But apparently the Service and Food Workers Union reckons that most of the calls it gets are from workers and parents of kids who have just started work, who ask about ...
First Reading 9 Apr 2008
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... hoped that this bill will do much to bring in the changes necessary to enhance the overall workplace environment. The Service and Food Workers Union, for example, reported that the largest number of calls and queries they field are from employees asking about their rest ...
Justice
Electoral Finance Act—Third Party Registration 10 Apr 2008
Hon Bill English ... itself has said that members of affiliated unions such as the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union and the Service and Food Workers Union are automatically members of the Labour Party; and was it the intention of the Government that a group so closely ...
Hon Bill English ... 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 other Labour group to register as third ...
Electoral Finance Act—Third Party Registration 8 Apr 2008
Hon Bill English ... 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 they are?
Labour
Air New Zealand—Pay Disparities 18 Mar 2008
Dr Pita Sharples Has the Minister read the information from the Service and Food Workers Union that Air New Zealand has offered less money to union workers than it paid to other workers who are doing the same work; ...
Electoral Finance Bill
In Committee 5 Dec 2007
Hon TAU HENARE ... or otherwise, it is their money, for goodness’ sake! It is their money. [ Interruption] Oh no, we know that the Service and Food Workers Union took $250,000 last election—$250,000—from its members. It stole $250,000 from the Service and Food Workers Union members.
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 18 Jul 2007
KATE WILKINSON ... be anywhere between $800,000 and $1 million, and do members know to whom it will be paid? It will be paid to the Service and Food Workers Union. Are we surprised at that, when this is the very same union that we are told received some $300,000—$350,000; $380,000—and...
Budget Debate 23 May 2007
Hon TAU HENARE ... took it off the workers again. Shame on the so-called unionists who are members of that Labour Government—from the Service and Food Workers Union right through to the hotel workers’ union. We have two old members from the hotel workers’ union, Mark Gosche and Rick ...
Budget Debate 22 May 2007
SUE MORONEY ... can remain in their own homes for longer.” That is exactly what we want. John Ryall, the National Secretary of the Service and Food Workers Union, says: “The Government is to be congratulated for responding to the submissions of sector unions and providing funding ...
Aviation Security Legislation Bill
First Reading 20 Mar 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... that Air New Zealand acted in bad faith regarding consultation over its plans to contract out. A different union, the Service and Food Workers Union, has also strongly objected to the company’s proposal, which it alleges will jeopardise the security of 300 check-in staff,...
Appropriation (Parliamentary Expenditure Validation) Bill
In Committee 18 Oct 2006
Hon TAU HENARE ... saw the accounts from the Labour Party it said they included union donations. What about the money it stole off the Service and Food Workers Union? What about the money it stole off the members of a union without the union members actually saying: “Here’s a donation ...
General Debate 13 Sep 2006
Hon TAU HENARE ... is the so-called president of the Labour Party. What about all his mates in the union? Let me tell members what the Service and Food Workers Union did. It stole $240,000 from its members, without telling them, and gave it to the Labour Party so that the Labour Party ...
KiwiSaver Bill
In Committee 29 Aug 2006
CRAIG FOSS ... There are more opportunities. Kiwis need to find their savings from the $200,000-odd talked about in relation to the Service and Food Workers Union issues at the moment. Kiwis could also save money from the $100 that a poor Auckland family is alleged to have paid to an ...
Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill
First Reading 23 Aug 2006
DARIEN FENTON ... football. I take the opportunity to say to Dr Mapp that if he wants to talk to me about the financial report of the Service and Food Workers Union, I have it here. I am very happy to help him read a balance sheet because I do not think Investigate is able to do it, ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2006
Hon TAU HENARE ... be its last term. But let us get serious. I have some documents here—a sorry saga of how a once-proud union, the Service and Food Workers Union, stole $200,000 off its members and did not tell them what it was going to do with it. I have documents showing that it ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2006
Third Reading 7 Sep 2006
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... into the House at the unions’ direction. Let us go through a few of the names. Darien Fenton was put in here by the Service and Food Workers Union last year. Sue Moroney was put in by the Nurses Organisation last year. Mark Gosche was an organiser in the union ....
DIANNE YATES ... kids a chance in New Zealand. They are working extremely hard, as we know. They are laundry workers—people from the Service and Food Workers Union, mostly—people working in the aged-care sector, caretakers, and a whole range of people. Those people are working very, ...
Second Reading 30 Aug 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... to be reminded that the impacts of these changes can have serious consequences for workers and their whānau. The Service and Food Workers Union reckons that changes in employment conditions impact hugely on workers with low incomes, forcing them to juggle a whole ...
First Reading 23 Feb 2006
SUE BRADFORD ... in some parts of the country. In the 2001 census, there were over 12,000 people working in cleaning services. The Service and Food Workers Union says that the average wage of a cleaner on a collective agreement is $10.40 to $10.60 an hour. That is the rate for a ...
JUDY TURNER ... of the changing employment arrangements around the worker. We understand that the bill is being put forward by the Service and Food Workers Union, and we also understand that the trigger for it, as referred to by other speakers, was a particular case involving ...
Address in Reply 22 Nov 2005
DAVE HEREORA ... congratulations to Judith Collins on 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 ...
Address in Reply 16 Nov 2005
DARIEN FENTON ... Mary Te Rata Māhuta Frost. I miss them both. I pay tribute to the leaders, delegates, and members of my union, the Service and Food Workers Union NgāRingaTota, whose courage and determination for a better life for working people comes with me to this House. I ...