If you know of someone taking on a new job or someone who is already suffering from the effects of the 90 day fire at will law, please send him/her this information. Also if you have any sense become a member of a union. We did as soon as National was voted in and already have had our money’s worth of legal assistance from them.
The more members they have the more we can make a fist and the more control we have about what we want our unions to do for us. $ 6.95 a week is not a lot for legal and political pressure back up.
Don’t be a fool and think that unions are “socialist” menace, they are there for you and me and that’s why the bosses don’t like us becoming members.
Unions are offering to go into battle for non-union members laid off under the new 90-day trial employment law.
All 42 unions affiliated to the Council of Trade Unions have agreed to take calls on the freephone number 0800 1UNION (0800 186 466) from any worker laid off during a 90-day trial period.
Callers from today will be directed to advocates from each union on a rostered basis, with all unions sharing the cost.
The CTU also launches a $42,000 advertising campaign on commercial and student radio today in a bid to reach non-unionised workers employed on trial periods.
“There won’t be a union at the Four Square in Kaitaia or the service station in Waiouru or whatever,” said CTU president Helen Kelly.
“The whole union movement has got behind it on the basis that these workers probably won’t be in a union. A lot will be in their first two weeks of work and might not have been offered the chance to join a union even if there is one there.
“We will not stand by and see those workers get no advice.”
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