Trade unions

It would be easy to dismiss the campaign being spearheaded by Grey Power and the Council of Trade Unions for a referendum to halt National's partial state-asset-sales programme as the politics of gesture that will achieve nothing.

Claims the Labour Party is considering a return to centralised wage fixing is being dismissed by the Council of Trade Unions.

Hundreds of Dunedin workers added their voices to the thousands of others across New Zealand protesting against employment law changes yesterday.

Garth George considers a shake-up in employment law is long overdue.