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Each hotel has just got its own health and safety committee, with 130 workers across the country selected as representatives in January and most meeting for the first time in April.
However, Unite spokesperson John Crocker said his union has been asking for more of a worker voice for months, with avoidable health and safety problems in the meantime like breaches, staff shortages and missed tests. There is a disappointment that it s taken too long, he said. We ve seen problems, we ve seen breaches, we ve seen conduct that the public and the media have called into question. We think, had we had thorough worker engagement, then we could have ironed some of those out along the way.
Pictor's test is expected to be 10 times cheaper than current methods, and will also be able to tell between people who have been infected or vaccinated.
Friday, 7 May 2021, 12:24 pm
“Compulsory unionism is undemocratic, will be a
wrecking ball on the economy, and doesn’t solve any
identified problem,” says ACT Leader David
Seymour.
“Today’s proposal is far more radical
than anything the Government has proposed before. It said it
would initially be ‘one or two industries.’ Today’s
proposal would allow any industry to have compulsory
unionism forced on it by one-in-ten workers from day
one.
“You cannot take a relic of the 1970s, dust it
off, and make it stick 50 years on. We will wipe it off the
statute books sooner or later, and the way this Government
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More money is being allocated to cycle trails in the hard hit Queenstown area. Photo / Supplied
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Aviation, tourism and energy writer for the NZ Heraldgrant.bradley@nzherald.co.nz@gbradleynz
Hard-hit South Island tourist regions have scooped up the bulk of government spending in a rescue package, with the allocation yet to be determined to what was a key international gateway; Auckland.
Of 12 key points in a $200 million Tourism Communities Plan, half are focused on the most vulnerable South Island regions: Fiordland, South Westland, Queenstown Lakes, Mackenzie District and Kaikōura.