JOIN US: Monday July 1st Day of Action:
Fund Pay Equity for Care and Support Workers Now.
It’s time to have your voice heard. Let’s show Minister Reti we need pay equity now. Bring your whānau and join us at your local rally.
Here are the times and locations of events across the country:
Will you join your local event on July 1st? Let us know you're coming by filling out this short, 2-minute form now.
Here's how these rallies will make a difference, and why it's important for you to come:
The rallies are to call on Health Minister Shane Reti to fully fund a fair pay equity settlement.
The reality is, if they decided to, Minister Reti and his colleagues could do that at any time.
But they won’t without a huge push from care and support workers and our communities.
We know Minister Reti has a watchful eye on this claim. He knows it has been taken to the Employment Relations Authority and the stakes are high. His officials have briefed him on the situation.
That’s why now is the time to turn up to a rally and use your voice. Together we can build pressure on them to provide full funding for a settlement.
This could be an important moment in the journey for pay equity. But only if we make it that way together by turning up on Monday July 1st.
So here's what we’re asking you to do:
Come to your local rally on July 1!
Bring family, friends, and your community.
Invite your people to the Facebook events and talk with them about coming with you.
The journey for pay equity has been long already. It can be hard to find the energy to keep going. But when we keep pushing together as union members we can win – just like we did for the original settlement in 2017.
See you on July 1st! We'd love to see you if - whether you're a union member or not.
Not a union member? Join here
About this claim
Our unions aim is for all support workers to receive pay equity at the same time, that you get the pay rates you deserve, your work is valued, and your skills are recognised .
Unions raised this Care and Support workers pay equity claim with 15 employers in community home support, disability, mental health & addictions and aged care residential as “representative employers”. A second process is then needed to extend the settlement to all support workers in the community - this will be done through the funded framework.
Why 15 employers? So we could get the work done as quickly as possible – the process is different than the union negotiated care and support workers settlement in 2017.
Are you included in the 15 employers listed below?
BUPA, CCS Disability Action Incorporated, Dunedin Community Care Trust, Emerge Aotearoa, Geneva Healthcare Limited, Healthcare of New Zealand Ltd, New Zealand Community Living Ltd, Pacific Island Homecare Services Trust, Pathways Health Ltd, Presbyterian Support Central, Spectrum Care Ltd, Te Roopu Taurima O Manukau Trust, The Lifewise Trust, Toucan Taranaki, VisionWest Community Trust
Not employed by one of the 15 representive employers? – the funded framework is the process for support workers to get pay equity. Union officials, delegates and members are lobbying politicians - MPS and Ministers - for all support workers to receive pay equity at the same time but this is not guaranteed and we need support workers to be involved and lobbying with us.
Other Pay equity claims have taken 3 or 4 years! But by working with the 15 “representative employers” we have completed a huge amount of the necessary work and are now waiting for the report to government to be finalised and funding to be approved so we can start bargaining. We have dates on hold to start bargaining as soon as we can and we are continuing to do the work required to speed up the bargaining process. There is then another process for government to sign off on funding after we reach a settlement and we will continue to work with the employers and government to ensure that this is done as quickly as possible.
