32,000 strong! ✊ The trade union for retail, finance, logistics, transport, manufacturing, ambulance and bus workers in Aotearoa New Zealand
Workers First Union
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This November, look at what parties DO, not what they SAY.
An ACT Party Minister has been found to have spent $17,000 on airport parking from 2024-2026 - while she was cutting budgets and front-line services from Oranga Tamariki.
Story: www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
💲"Misery Budget 2026: a crumbling house with a fresh coat of paint" 📉 (2/2)
Read the full "Emergency" report here: www.workersfirst.nz/hawkfile/202...
... the necessary electrification of our diesel ambulance fleet, and coordination issues with the wider health sector. The present model (a relic of the past) cannot handle these challenges and is no longer fit for purpose. Public ownership is the only answer. For more, check out the report ✊
Today, we’re very excited to launch our new report – “Emergency: Saving New Zealand’s Ambulance Services”. You can read the full report here: tinyurl.com/4edeaa2v
The partially charity-funded ambulance model was never designed for the modern world. And right now, five compounding pressures are pushing it toward breaking point - an ageing population, a massive Trans-Tasman pay gap, a collapse in charitable giving, ...
We make the case for why our ambulance services need full government funding now – not more one-off top-ups during an election year – and why public ownership must be the future.
💲"Misery Budget 2026: a crumbling house with a fresh coat of paint" 📉 (1/2)
Our "Emergency" ambulance report in numbers.
#nzpol When 29 miners died at Pike River, New Zealand made a promise. We said, “never again”. We said, “every worker deserves to come home safe”. But now Brooke van Velden is trying to undo that promise.
Sign our open letter calling on MPs to stop ACT's Health and Safety Bill in its tracks:
