Peters to unions: strikes not helpful; no word on Fair Pay Agreements

Peters to unions: strikes not helpful; no word on Fair Pay Agreements
Pattrick Smellie
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters used his first-ever address to a Council of Trade Unions national conference to chide the union movement for striking more under a Labour-led than a National-led government. He also made clear that his New Zealand First party is nowhere near reaching a settled position on the flagship Fair Pay Agreements policy championed by his senior coalition government partner, Labour. Asked by journalists after his speech to the biennial CTU conference whether there would be FPA legislation before the election, he...

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