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Trade union in New Zealand From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Service & Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota (SFWU) was a trade union in New Zealand. It was affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and the New Zealand Labour Party.
Service & Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota | |
Merged into | E tū |
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Dissolved | October 2015 |
Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
Location | |
Members | 23,000+ |
Key people | John Ryall, National Secretary |
Affiliations | NZCTU, Labour Party |
Website | www.sfwu.org |
The SFWU was organised into five industry sectors:
The Service & Food Workers Union filed a case with the Employment Court against Terranova, a rest home operator, in relation to allegations that it paid its caregivers lower wages that it would otherwise pay if its work force was not predominantly made up of women.[1] The case went all the way to the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, where it was upheld in 2015. The government then took it on itself to negotiate a settlement, which was announced in April 2017 as "the largest pay increase in New Zealand's history".[2]
In October 2015, the Service & Food Workers Union merged with the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union to form E tū.[3]
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