Fight Back Together
Maranga Ake

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 Māori 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 Māori rights. The coalition is trying to divide us and are sowing the seeds of division.