THE UNIONIST: Warmer, healthy homes; meat industry workforce deserve certainty

The Council of Trade Unions has welcomed a Green Party pre budget announcement this week of $50 million to go towards insulation of state housing, writes 'The Unionist' this week.  We also report on the meat industry redundancies, as well as give the weekly wrap of events, meetings and campaign dates. Story summaries are below, and visit this page for the full newsletter: http://union.org.nz/news/2008/the-unionist-warmer-healthy-homes-meat-industry-workforce-derserve-certainty

* State housing insulation programme welcome
The Council of Trade Unions has welcomed a Green Party pre budget announcement this week of $50 million to go towards insulation of state housing.

* Meat industry needs to get moving on merger
“The meat processing industry owes it to its workforce to get back to the table on discussions for a meat industry merger,” CTU secretary Carol Beaumont said on Tuesday.

* Skills Strategy Consultation
Unions, business, the government and industry training organisations launched consultation on the New Zealand Skills Strategy late last month, and there are a series of workshops in 23 locations to seek feedback from workers, employers, trainers and others about the strategy.

The Unionist is the CTU's weekly newsletter.  Visit this page for the full newsletter: http://union.org.nz/news/2008/the-unionist-warmer-healthy-homes-meat-industry-workforce-derserve-certainty
 

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