NUPE

To all NUPE members: Sleepovers: I have spoken to Bronwyn the Acting CEO and Alastair from the SFWU (who also represent members in Richmond who have lodged claims for Sleepovers being paid the minimum wage). Following the Sleepover Wages Settlement Act, an agreed Terms of Settlement will need to be sorted out for the past six years and for the future. For the past, these terms are likely to be basically the ones in the  [ Read More ]

Canterbury Recovery team with Unions – record of meeting   1. Minutes: Flexitime had been withheld– now “back to business as usual – no role for CRT. “Not unreasonably withheld”. However there are some situations where it is not unreasonable to decline.   2. Minutes: NEC issue: 10 minute early start up will be counted as work time – this is different from how it applies in the Contact Centre and since IRD wants “consistency”  [ Read More ]

To advise: Child Youth & Family NUPE members general agreement has been ratified. Thanks to the NUPE Bargaining Team and thanks to the people who took the time to get informed and voted.   Watch your emails for further information.  

NUPE Newsletter Collective Agreement Bargaining General Agreement This week the NUPE team and the MSD team met to further progress the bargaining for your Collective Employment Agreement. There was some good progress made. A summary of the claims and their current status in this process in outlined below. NUPE represents many occupational groups on the CYF/MSD – NUPE Collective Employment Agreement. There were a large number of claims at the outset which is expected given  [ Read More ]

AUGUST 2011 DHB PROPOSES TRUST OR OUTSIDE PROVIDER At meetings called on 22 August, staff at IDSS were asked to comment on a proposal that the NMDHB exit from the provision of residential and day support services for DSS. Questions for Members: Would a Trust or Outside Provider be better than the Status Quo? If so, which is the better option – Trust or Outside provider? Do we support DSS pursuing adequate funding from MOH  [ Read More ]

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To NUPE members Mediation with Richmond NZ Thursday 25 August Mediation was held yesterday in Templeton, Christchurch. Our Collective negotiations have been stalled for months. The unions had proposed that we as a minimum place the current remuneration process into the agreement as a way forward. Some progress on this and a new Collective Agreement was made at our mediation. We intend to call meetings to consider an offer which Richmond will make to us  [ Read More ]

Delegates Mike Keen and Rick Robinson have approved the Terms of Settlement from IRD to be put to members. There are a couple of things that are an improvement for members (and very few negatives). The main changes are round leave (improvements), remuneration (same as the other unions and not sure if it is good or bad), restructuring (same as the other unions and not too bad) and the wording round the hours of work  [ Read More ]

1. CEA negotiations – negotiations with Richmond were held on 25 and 26 May. More dates are being arranged. The unions asked for a. changes on pay (pay system to be in the agreement with clear progression steps and a pay rise to keep up with inflation) b. Overtime for extra hours, double time on stat days, and on call allowances c. Long service leave d. Extra redundancy protections e. Collective provisions for all Richmond  [ Read More ]

NUPE and SFWU met with Richmond NZ last Wednesday and Thursday for bargaining a new collective agreement. The negotiations were very positive with some useful discussion and a future date in July (to be advised) has been set down for continuing bargaining. Your delegate David Billows will be visiting you soon to give you an update.