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Get Organised! NZ Unions Tell Army


The only way Kiwi soldiers can improve their pay and conditions of employment is to get organised and bargain collectively with their employers according to New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.

Kiwi troops in Timor are paid less than a third the daily allowance that their Australian colleagues receive and some Kiwi soldiers are talking about going to work for the Aussies.

'Going to work for the Aussies is simply not a solution," NZCTU President Ross Wilson says.

"If the top brass charge their employees with desertion for going to work for Telecom I imagine it would have to be a treason charge if they jump in with the Aussies."

"It is time to set aside the old conventions that prevent rank and file military personnel from advocating their cause and bargaining collectively with their employers," Ross Wilson said.

"The Army is like any other business these days with the top brass imposing tight budgets on wage increases and other improvements in conditions of employment".

"Rank and file soldiers should be able to get the benefit of the new Employment Relations Act by joining the PSA and negotiating collectively with their employers like other New Zealand employees can."


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Features
*  Interview: New Internationalism
In its battle with Rio Tinto the CFMEU has pioneered global campaigning. National Secretary John Maitland talks to Workers Online about globalisation, a union response and using new technologies to organise .
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*  History: Pickets and Police
S11 protestors would do well to be wary. Fred Paterson, CPA member of the Qld Parliament, was bashed by the Queensland police on St Patrick's Day 1948, when a Labor Government was in power in that state.
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*  Education: The WEF -Why Should We Care?
An event like the World Economic Forum attracts all the spin doctors for every interest, often obscuring real issues. For educators the issues may seem remote but a closer look shows that services like public education could be dramatically affected by the unfolding agenda of global trade liberalisation says Rob Durbridge.
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*  Economics: A Vandalised Economy
Since New Zealand was opened up to the forces of globalisation, it has performed dismally, both economically and socially. NZCTU Economist Peter Conway reports.
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*  Unions: Our Vital Role in Society
Eight months into his new role as ACTU Secretary Greg Combet reflects on the challenges facing Australian unions.
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*  International: Turning Up The Heat
John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO says the union movement can and will reform the global economy, for as Dr Martin Luther King taught us, the moral arc of history is long but it bends towards justice.
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*  Satire: Threat to withhold pocket money derails S11 protest
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Members of the activist collective S11 announced today that they had decided to cancel their protest at the upcoming World Economic Forum meeting at Crown Casino.
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»  Multi-national Stymies Peace Talks
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»  Greed of the Fatcats
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»  Women Challenge Prejudice in Maritime Industry
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»  Building Union Raises $42,000 For Paralympians
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»  Get Organised! NZ Unions Tell Army
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Columns
»  Away For The Games
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Tool Shed
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Letters to the editor
»  Its time to stop the pretence
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