Oral Blog Entry - A Diploma Lecture (week 6: Unions In New Zealand)

This Lecture was given by Sarah Hardman,who is a lecture and ASTE branch chairperson. She explained what a union stand for. The union is a workers organized into a voluntary association to further their mutual with respect to wages, hours, working condition and other matters of interest to the workers. When people joint together, they are more stronger . They can get more good deal in pay rates,hours of work, working condition such as holidays sick pay and workplace safety and equality of opportunity. This is the reason why people need a union. But unions are voluntary, you can choose if you want to join.In New Zealand there are about 330,000 people belonging to unions and 51.5% are women. The members vote for their leader who help them to negotiated with employers. If you want to know more information about unions, you can click here.