Retail
D.I.Y. Payrise
Submitted by administrator on Thu, 06/03/2008 - 2:38pm.If you’ve ever flicked through a Bunning’s catalogue or watched one of their ads on TV lately, chances are you saw a fellow union member.
Simon Oosterman
Twenty-year dream becomes a reality
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/12/2007 - 3:29pm.
After a 25-year engagement Janet Andrew was finally able to afford a wedding and honeymoon, thanks in part to a wage rise negotiated by her union.
The Farmers’ delegate, who is a lingerie consultant at the company’s New Lynn store, married her partner Craig on her birthday last October and was able to go on her long awaited honeymoon.
Daughter Sarah, an NDU member at the Body Shop, gave her mother away at the Westlynn gardens in New Lynn, Auckland.
Family photo albulm
Retail workers on the rise
Submitted by administrator on Tue, 04/12/2007 - 3:27pm.NDU victory in last year’s Progressive Distribution Centres lock-out and growing demand from retail workers for better wages and conditions have created a momentum that has paid off for thousands of shop workers covered by NDU national collective agreements up for renewal this year.
The new collective agreements have delivered some of the biggest pay rises since the 1980s.
