Home »Editorial »Daily News »New Zealand – Thousands of university staff to stage half-day strike as pay negotiations stall (Stuff.co.nz)Daily News View All NewsNew Zealand – Thousands of university staff to stage half-day strike as pay negotiations stall (Stuff.co.nz)04 October 2022Thousands of staff across New Zealand’s eight universities will stage a half-day strike this Thursday as part of strike action over failed pay increase negotiations, reports Stuff.co.nz. An estimated 7,000 academics, researchers and general staff from Auckland, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Canterbury, Lincoln, Massey, Otago, Victoria and Waikato universities will take part in the strike action. Negotiations between the union and the university sector began in July, but months later still had not reached an agreement. Underpinning contract negotiations was the need for pay rates to keep pace with annual inflation – a figure which reached a 32-year high of 7.3% in July. Across the sector, 87% of union members were in favour of striking.

Source: Stuff October 04, 2022 14:34 UTC