Issues
Fairness at work
Fairness at work is about the basic rights we all have as workers to respect, safe employment conditions and the chance to spend time with friends and family. It’s about workers working hard, but also knowing our work is respected, fairly paid, safe and family-friendly.In these tough times it’s about putting people in real jobs and, just as importantly, making sure we keep people in jobs.” It’s about working together to build strong communities and workplaces where everyone has a fair chance to earn a living safely.
Learn our way out of trouble
“Tertiary education has the capacity, if well funded, to move people into new jobs and to move New Zealand’s economy in newly sustainable directions. We can choose, like other strong economies and communities, to learn our way out of troubles that were not our own making. But we need to overcome the current underfunding, and we need to do it now while we still have time.”
Pay and Employment Equity
In 2006, women earn 87% of the average hourly earnings of men. The jobs women do more likely to do are, on average, valued less than the jobs done predominantly by men and women are also less likely to be promoted. TEU is campaigning for all working women to have equal pay and employment opportunities to men.
Parental leave
Parents, caregivers and their children should have the opportunity and the right to spend as much time together as possible during their first months and years together. Children need time to bond with those that care for them.
Parental leave is a crucial working right but it’s also an important tool for enlightened employers who want the economic benefits of retaining experienced workers, ensuring a place for families in their business and contributing to their communities.
Worklife balance and flexible work
Work-life balance is a goal for workers and unions across Aotearoa-New Zealand. Partly it is about workload but it also is about the type of work people do, our hours of work, leave entitlements, pay, workplace culture and individuals’ life, family and community participation.
