New Zealand Early Childhood Workers Union

Date: 1973-2016

By: May, Helen (Dr), 1947-

Reference: ATL-Group-00697

Description: Newsletters, negotiation papers, brochures, and other papers relating to the early history of the Early Childhood Workers' Union. Also papers including reports, publications, and correspondence relating to various aspects of Early Childhood Education including policy, funding, and research. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - Copies of the union publication `Roundabout' Other - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts Section, tranfers made from here. Quantity: 79 folder(s). 19 audiocassette(s). 12 box(es). 0.90 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Professor Helen May, Wellington, June 2007, July 2007, April 2011, August 2011, September 2011, August 2013 (A2013-205), October 2013 (A2013-276), October 2016 (2016-0639). Transfers: To Serials Collection - Copies of `Roundabout' - To Ephemera Collection - Posters relating to early childhood education - To Published Sound Collection - Video of 'The Big Picture: Te Whariki: Policy to Practice' - To Ephemera Collection - Three Te Whariki posters. Processing information: Collection changed to multi-format in March 2022 when material previously transferred to Oral History and Sound was reunited with the collection.

Date: 10, 16 November 1999 - 10 Nov 1999 - 16 Nov 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Piper, Susan Margaret, 1951-

Reference: OHInt-0478/18

Description: Susan Margaret Piper born Wellington. Outlines family background - mother, a daughter of Scottish railway engineer, went to university and joined the New Zealand Communist Party. Father, Pip Piper, was a member of the Communist Party and active in the PPTA. Recalls grandmother set up Woodford House School. Discusses politics of family members. Discusses: involvement in the Anti Vietnam war campaign; joining the Labour Party and involvement in the Clerical Workers Union (CWU), with refernce to Des Nolan, David Jacobs, Margaret and Des Nolan, Peter Franks, Tony Neary, Fintan Patrick Walsh, Therese O'Connell, John Slater and Christine Gillespie. Recalls time as employers advocate for the first ever Early Childhood Workers Union voluntary agreement and time as Chair of PSA Child Care Centre. Discusses feminism and its influence. Gives details of rise through union movement and getting involved in the PSA with reference to Ron Smith. Describes the culture of the PSA. Details PSA response to 1988 State Sector Act. Discusses the Employment Contracts Act (ECA), the PSA stance on a general strike against the ECA and the general strike. Talks about compulsory unionism. Outlines involvement with the Suffrage Year Centennial Trust (Whakatu Wahine), with reference to Miriam Dell (Chair), Pat Tairoa, Areta Rewhiti and Lady Judith Hay. Recalls effects of Suffrage Year Centennial. Mentions Working Womens Charter. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007490-007492; OHLC-003579-003581 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.55 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1895.

Date: 1983

By: New Zealand Early Childhood Workers Union

Reference: Eph-D-PRESCHOOL-1983-01

Description: Poster, a liftout on newsprint,shows a photograph of a smiling woman childcare worker holder two children, one in each arm. The verso outlines all the rights that childcare workers are entitled to. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: 1973-1991

By: Gardiner, Crispin William, active 1974-2008

Reference: MS-Group-1735

Description: Collection comprises administrative papers relating to childcare organisations including Hamilton Day Care Centres Trust. Includes correrspondence, reports, minutes, financial records, research papers and printed material. Source of title - Supplied by Library Accompanying material - Original box listing available in backfile. Arrangement: This collection was deposited in four boxes (two file boxes, two transit boxes). Material now arranged into 10 file boxes. The original order of the material has been maintained. Quantity: 10 box(es) file boxes. 1.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescript & printed matter Provenance: This collection was donated by Gardiner to the Early Childhood Archive in 1992.

Date: 1970-1992

By: Combined Early Childhood Union of Aotearoa; New Zealand Educational Institute

Reference: 96-169

Description: Comprises records of the Combined Early Childhood Union of Aotearoa (CECUA), and its predecessor unions, the New Zealand Free Kindergarten Teachers Association (FKTA), the Free Kindergarten Teachers Union, and the Early Childhood Workers Union (ECWU) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also 88-019, MSZ-0667-0668, 97-212, 97-296 and 2002-177 for further NZEI records Quantity: 69 box(es). 23 Linear Metres. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the NZEI, 1996

Date: 1979-1993

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: 94-106-45/02

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1984

By: New Zealand Early Childhood Workers Union; Wellington Media Collective

Reference: Eph-D-PRESCHOOL-1984-03

Description: A poster reprinted from a British original by the Wellington Media Collective shows twelve panels of illustration in three rows, each with a childcare scenario involving a mother or caregiver in red dungarees. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 450 x 380 mm. Provenance: Donated by Dr Helen May, Dunedin, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-1604 and MS-Papers-10796-39-54, also Published Collections, and Oral History Centre..

Date: 09 Sep 1996 - 18 Apr 1997

By: Fowke, Susan, 1944-2017

Reference: OHColl-1177

Description: Interviews with seven women involved in early childhood education, either as childcare workers or as kindergarten teachers. A few became union organisers or association representatives. The interviewees discuss their family backgrounds, education, other jobs before recalling their choice to undertake careers in early childhood education. They describe social perceptions of early childhood work, lack of facilities, poor conditions, low pay and paucity of training, particularly for childcare workers. Some interviewees talk about the formation of the Early Childhood Workers Union (ECWU), which was registered in 1982 but did not win a national pay award until 1986. They mention the relationship with the NZ Free Kindergarten Teachers Association (NZFKTA), formed in 1953. They note the raised public profile of childcare after transfer, in 1980s, from Department of Social Welfare to Department of Education. They comment on the delivery of new training courses through polytechnics. The interviewees discuss the 1990 amalgamation of the ECWU with the NZFKTA to form the Combined Early Childhood Union of Aotearoa (CECUA) in a difficult political environment. In 1994 the CECUA amalgamated with the NZ Educational Institute (NZEI) to form Te Riu Roa. The interviewees are: Helen Baxter, Philippa (Pippa) Cubey, Olive Hawira, Georgina Kerr, Wendy Lee, Patricia Scott-Middlemiss, Clare Wells. Sponsored by - Commissioned by CECUA, carried out by Alexander Turnbull Library Interviewer(s) - Susan Fowke Accompanying material - Interview with Georgina Kerr accompanied by photocopied articles on the development of early childhood education in NZ and educators' associations and unions, OHA-7992- 2. Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-024326 - OHC-024348 Abstracts: OHA-7989 - OHA-7995 Quantity: 23 C60 cassette(s). 7 printed abstract(s). 7 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - CECUA

Date: 1985-1987

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

Reference: Eph-D-ROTH-Labour-1985/1987

Description: Includes: 1985: New Zealand Federation of Labour. Childcare is a union issue! / Design, Wellington Media Collective. Overpasted with a sticker "Equality for child care workers!" / E.C.W.U., PO Box 466, Wellington New Zealand Seamen's Union. Support New Zealand Shipping. Don't leave New Zealand crews on shore. Design Wellington Media Collective; photo Brian Davis. Published by the New Zealand Seamen's Union ... 1985 New Zealand Engineering Union. "If you think a 17% wage increase isn't reasonable, read this" [1985] Trade Union Health and Safety Centre. Trade Union health & safety 1985 [Calendar] 1986: Trade unions in New Zealand history. Compiled by bert Roth for the Education Subcommittee of the Auckland Interim Committee of the Council of Trade Unions ... 1986 1986/1988: Bob Kerr, 1951- . There's been a lot of talk lately about "freeing up the labour market" and "labour market flexibility" - don't be fooled. ... Join your union, fighting low pay. [ca 1986-1988]. 1987: Auckland Trades Council. May Day Committee. May 1 1987. Rally and march. Assemble 12.00 at Aotea Square and march to Albert Park 1.00 pm NZ Engineering Union. Labour market flexibility. Just how flexible do you have to be? ... [1987?] Petone Woollen Mills strike 1890. Strike! Trouble at t' mill. Petone Settlers Museum ..., 8 August - 10 December 1987 Workers Peace Festival. Victoria Park, Sat 28th Feb. Fly high with Herbs. 1251 ZM Total Music [1987] Quantity: 10 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Prints, relief prints and photolithographs, varying sizes. Provenance: Part of the Roth acquisition, 1990-1994.