Lecture Summary- Unions in New Zealand
Lecturer: Sarah Hardman
Date: 3 April, 2007
Ms. Sarah Harman, the Unitec lecturer and Branch Chairman of the Association of Staff in Tertiary Education (ASTE), gave a lecture about unions in New Zealand on the Mt Abert campus at Unitec on 3 April, 2007. In the lecture, Sarah described the concept and functions of a union. According to her lecture, a union is an organization with some members joining in it, and workers organise into a voluntary association, or union to further their mutual benefits with respect to wages, working hours, working conditions and other matters of interest, such as equality of opportunities, etc. For instance, a union can bargain on their member’s behalf with their employers for pay, holidays or wages and so on. Unions also handle the strikes if they fail to achieve the reasonable negotiation with the employers. The research made by New Zealand government shows that there are 333,000 union members in New Zealand, and 51.50 percent among them are females. Any workers can join the unions to protect their own benefits.
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