Today, on International Workers Day, we announce the launch of a new union:
UTU for Workers Union
. Our mission is to build a working class, grassroot, campaigning movement to stop exploitation and end workplace abuse in Aotearoa-New Zealand.Â
The Working Class Challenge
The international trade union movement is in a fight for relevancy to the majority of the working class. Decades of relentless attacks on the workersâ movement have been devastating.Â
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In our country, out of over 1.5 million private sector workers, less than one in fourteen (7%) are members of a union. If we exclude the large private companies, unionisation in the private sector is effectively non-existent. More than half of the workers employed in the private sector do not even have the option to join a trade union nor be covered by a collective agreement.Â