EPMU members to vote on merger with SFWU

EPMU members to vote on merger with SFWU
By Paul McBeth July 2 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union's members will vote on whether to merge with the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota to create the second-biggest workers' advocate, with the outcome flagged for early August. The Wellington-based union's national conference today endorsed the merger with 82 percent support, meaning the EPMU's more-than 30,000 members will now decide on whether to pursue the merger. The union's members will vote through a postal ballo...