Fight Back Together – Maranga Ake 23 October 2024

On the 23rd of Octo­ber the NZCTU are host­ing hui across the coun­try to fight back against the Government’s ongo­ing attacks on work­ers’ rights. We are call­ing on work­ing people to stand with us and send a strong mes­sage to those in power. 

When work­ing people unite and fight back against anti-work­er policies, we cre­ate change and trans­form soci­ety for the bet­ter. When we fight back togeth­er, we win.  

We are host­ing events in:

This is the most anti-work­er gov­ern­ment that we’ve seen in dec­ades, attack­ing our rights day after day and try­ing to divide us. But we won’t let them get away with it. We must fight back.  

• This coali­tion gov­ern­ment is in the pock­ets of the rich and cor­por­ate interests and doesn’t care about work­ing people.  
• Through stand­ing togeth­er and mobil­ising, we can demon­strate our power and ensure that this one-term gov­ern­ment loses its legit­im­acy. 
• When our backs are against a wall, we fight back. And when we fight, we win. 

In just one year in power, the coali­tion has already:  

• abol­ished fair pay agree­ments, 
• brought back 90-day tri­als, 
• ordered mass pub­lic sec­tor lay­offs, 
• cut back increases to the min­im­um wage,  
• under­mined Te Tir­iti and M?ori rights, 
• scaled back work on pay equity claims, 
• cut back fund­ing on health ser­vices, edu­ca­tion, pub­lic trans­port
• scrapped essen­tial infra­struc­ture pro­jects, 
• made life harder for migrant work­ers,  
• giv­en huge tax breaks to land­lords while cut­ting pub­lic ser­vices 
• caused a dra­mat­ic increase in unem­ploy­ment while stop­ping income insur­ance 

There are also pro­pos­als to: 

• block work­ers from tak­ing employ­ment cases to court,  
• weak­en health and safety pro­tec­tions, 
• and reduce sick leave and hol­i­day enti­tle­ments. 

This is on top of the relent­less and ongo­ing attacks on Te Tir­iti o Wait­angi and M?ori rights. The coali­tion is try­ing to divide us and are sow­ing the seeds of divi­sion.