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TEU National Women’s Committee, Te Kahurangi Mareikura

  • Committee members
  • Guiding principles
  • Committee meetings and dates
  • Role of the National Women’s Committee, Te Kahurangi Māreikura
  • TEU Branch Women’s Representatives
  • Organising a “Coffee Cake and Chat” session

Issues

  • pay and employment equity campaign
  • parental leave
  • worklife balance and flexible work

Other useful links

  • CTU Women’s Council page
  • Toolkit on combining parental leave and a career – a toolkit published by the University of Auckland with input and advice from TEU, covering before, during and after parental leave
  • Women returning to work report – a joint project by the University of Auckland and the Association of University Staff analysing women’s experiences returning to work after parental leave
  • LabourStart’s” women’s union news page
  • The British Trade Union Congress Family Friendly Working Guide (pdf)
  • Panui March 2011 - A quarterly newsletter from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs

Click here for latest women’s news

  • Growing gender pay gapMay 3, 2012, 11:08 am

    The Quarterly Employment Survey data released at the same time as the labour cost index data shows that the pay gap between men and women has grown by 28 cents per hour in the last year.  Men are paid an average of $28.66 per hour and women earn $24.91 per [...]

  • International support for 26 weeks paid parental leaveApril 24, 2012, 10:52 am

    CTU Media Release 24 April 2012 An  international trade union conference on maternity protection has adopted the extension of paid parental leave to 26 weeks as a priority for the Asia/Pacific/Middle East region. Participants at the International Trade Union Confederation and International Labour Conference held last week in Singapore also [...]

  • Members Bill to extend Paid Parental Leave welcomed – CTU Women’s Council media releaseApril 5, 2012, 3:56 pm

    CTU Women’s Council Press Release 5 April 2012 Members Bill to extend Paid Parental Leave welcomed CTU Women’s Council Co-convenor Suzanne McNabb welcomes the Members Bill to extend paid parental leave to six months and congratulates Labour’s Sue Moroney on having it pulled from the Ballot today. Suzanne McNabb says [...]

  • Union Women Focus on Domestic WorkersMarch 8, 2012, 4:52 pm

    New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Women’s Council Media Release 8 March 2012 A “12 by 12” campaign has been launched by international trade unions, domestic workers’ groups and global community organisations for the ratification of an international convention passed in 2011 to establish decent working conditions for domestic workers.  [...]

  • TEU National Women’s Committee, Te Kahurangi Māreikura (NWC) NewsletterMarch 2, 2012, 3:01 pm

    March 2012 Welcome to the TEU National Women’s Committee, Te Kahurangi Māreikura (NWC) Newsletter This newsletter: provides information to people who are thinking of applying for flexible working arrangements (or have had requests for flexible working arrangements turned down); provides a background to the NWC; introduces TEU’s women members to the members of the [...]

  • Last day to sign pay discrimination petitionsSeptember 29, 2011, 10:38 am

    As part of its on-going campaign for Pay and Employment Equity TEU is supporting the CTU’s petition to encourage workers to invite Department of Labour inspectors into their workplaces to check the time and wage records of their employers for any discrimination. CTU President, Helen Kelly said “The Ministers of [...]

  • ILO Equality Conventions (100 and 111)September 28, 2011, 12:57 pm

    5 October 2011: World Teachers’ Day – “Teachers for Gender Equality” The last century has seen a transformation in women’s legal rights, with countries around the globe expanding the scope of women’s legal entitlements. Some of these legal entitlements, such as women’s right to equal pay for work of equal [...]

  • World Bank addresses gender pay gapSeptember 23, 2011, 5:40 pm

    The 2012 World Bank World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development, released today, observes that while over half a billion women have joined the global labour market in the last 30 years, “gender gaps in earnings remain stubbornly unchanged in much of the world.”  This is one of four [...]

  • TEU women celebrate Suffrage Day and MMPSeptember 15, 2011, 9:40 am

    Women at several TEU branches will be celebrating the 118th anniversary of women’s suffrage next Monday. TEU women at both Victoria University and Lincoln University are hosting Suffrage Day breakfasts, while Waiariki polytechnic women have organised a series of events during the day with a strong focus on encouraging women [...]

  • Inflation sidesteps education workers’ pay-packetsAugust 11, 2011, 10:44 am

    Statistics released last week show that average hourly earnings for people working in education and training have risen 32 cents to $31.05 in the last year. That rise of 1 percent is well less than inflation for the same period of 5.3 percent. Indeed, total average hourly earnings for people [...]

 

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