Category: Equal Pay

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Pay Equity Events

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The Government using Pay Equity settlements as a way to fund their Budget is a new low.

Join in rallies across the motu to speak truth to power.

Below is a list of all the event’s we are aware of. If you have any other events you’d like to add, please let us know here.

Auckland

  • Fight Back Against Pay Equity Attacks
  • Brooke Van Velden’s Office, 35 St Johns Rd, St Johns
  • 1pm Friday 9th May

Hamilton

  • Protest
  • Tama Potaka’s Office, 109 Rostrevor St
  • 1pm Friday 9th May

Tauranga

  • Red Square, Spring Street
  • 12.30pm Friday 9th May

Thames

  • Scott Simpson’s office, 614 Pollen Street Thames
  • 1.30pm Friday 9th May

Feilding

  • Pay Equity Rally
  • Suze Redmayne Office, 51 Fergusson St
  • 1pm Friday 9th May

Levin

  • Outside MP Tim Costley’s electorate office, corner of Bath and Oxford Street
  • 1pm Friday 9th May

Ōtaki

  • MP Tim Costly’s office in Ōtaki, 7, Office 6c/3 Te Roto Drive, Paraparaumu
  • 12.30pm Friday 9th May

Nelson

  • March for Pay Equity
  • Millers Acre Carpark by the Info Centre
  • 11am, Marching at 11.15 Saturday 10th May

Christchurch

  • Protest at Hon Nicola Grigg’s (Minister for Women) Office
  • Shop 34, Rolleston Square 9 Masefield Drive Rolleston 7614
  • 1pm, Friday 9th May

Timaru

  • Protest
  • Rangitata MP James Meager’s Office, 30 Cannon St, Timaru Central
  • 1pm, Friday 9th May

Dunedin

  • Protect Pay Equity
  • The Exchange
  • 1.30pm, Friday 9th May
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Unions launch petition to protect pay equity

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Major Aotearoa unions have launched a new petition calling on the Government to reverse their proposed amendments to the Equal Pay Act and restore existing pay equity claims.

Unions behind the petition are home to tens of thousands of working people who’ve experienced the life-changing impact of pay equity – including hospital administrators, social workers, nurses, and Allied health professionals.

“For many people who work in underpaid, traditionally female-dominated sectors, pay equity settlements are the difference between families being able to afford dental appointments, tamariki going to school camp, or being able to take the car into a mechanic,” said NZCTU Secretary Melissa Ansell-Bridges.

“The proposed changes will reverse decades of progress to correct pay rates for women and people of all genders working jobs that have been undervalued due to sexism.

“This is about equity and justice – but it’s also about dignity and the cost-of-living,” said Ansell-Bridges. 

The petition calls on the Government to: 

  • Reverse all claim cancellations by restoring existing pay equity claims – including for care and support workers, teachers, and library assistants. 
  • Undo Equal Pay Act changes that make it impossible for people working in female-dominated professions to achieve and keep pay equity.  
  • Deliver pay equity settlements to every worker waiting for their claim. 

In less than 24 hours after the petition launched, it already has more than 5000 signatures.

Unions supporting the petition include NZCTU, PSA, E tū, NZEI, NZNO, TEU, New Zealand Writers Guild and Tertiary Institutes Allied Staff Association.