5 key features make up workplace of future - CTU

CTU MEDIA RELEASE
17 October 2007

5 key features make up workplace of the future - CTU

“As a union movement we should be leading the debate on the future of work. Te Huarahi mo nga Kaimahi, launched today, sets out what we are doing now to build the workplace of the future and looks at the challenges going forward,” CTU president Helen Kelly said today.

“We think there are five features that will define decent work and the modern workplace.”

“It will be high wage and high value; it will be highly skilled; workplace practices will be based on fairness and respect; industries will be well networked and the importance of public services understood; and it will be healthy, safe and sustainable.”

“The publication tells a story about why unions have become so involved in ways to improve working lives, through traditional bargaining and lobbying for law changes, but also through social partnership and direct projects that invest in better workplaces.”

The booklet was launched at the Council of Trade Unions biennial conference, which concludes in Wellington this afternoon. It is available here: http://union.org.nz/policy/te-huarahi-mo-nga-kaimahi

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