By Patrick Brown February 8, 2021
AUCKLAND, New Zealand Dozens of home-care workers and their supporters picketed Lifewise services here Jan. 23 against the employer’s attacks on hours and wages and in support of the workers’ demand for a union contract.
The E Tu union action helped kick off a three-day strike. The workers are protesting the bosses’ notice of a two-week February lockout, targeting the 78 union members who took part in six days of strike action in December and earlier this month.
Lifewise services, a division of the Methodist Church, employs 100 workers who provide care for the elderly and disabled in their homes.