Labour contract

Date: 10 Dec 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Corkery, Neville, active 1987-1993

Reference: OHInt-0662/13

Description: Neville Corkery recalls the setting up of Southland Unemployed Rights Centre in 1987. Refers to Federation of Labour and Robert Irvine. Talks about Benefit cuts, Employment Contract Act, relationship with trade union movement and the impact of closures of meatworks. Mentions 1980 Business Roundtable protest. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010381 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3526.

Date: 4, 5, August 1998 - 04 Aug 1998 - 05 Aug 1998

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Grant, Steve, 1934-

Reference: OHInt-0478/37

Description: Steve Grant born Scotland, arrived in New Zealand 1947. Recalls apprenticeship as an electrician with Union Steam Ship Company. Describes working life on ships before joining the Otahuhu workshops. Talks about union activities at the workshops and how he became General Secretary of the Railway Tradesmen's Association. Recalls introduction of Amenity Blocks. Discusses progression through the union ranks and the role of the RTA; compulsory unionism; branch relationship with union executive; Catholic Action Group at Otahuhu workshops to counter communist influence; Muldoon electioneering in Otahuhu workshops; strength of apprentices during World War II; 1952 Railway strike; working conditions in the Railways during the late 1950s and 1960s and reaction of RTA to new technology. Mentions the introduction of female apprentices into Railway workshops and some of the resulting problems. Mentions Doug Crosado, Ray Gough, Bill Higgins, Harry Taylor, Allan Goldsmith, Richard Prebble and [Brian] Talboys. Discusses the Combined State Services Organisation and the Ruling Rate Survey in relation to Railway Officers Institute. Explains the relationship with Locomotive Engineers' Association, Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants / National Union of Railwaymen (employees), New Zealand Engineers' Union and Federation of Labour. Talks about formation of joint union-management scheme - Employees Assistance Programme and its introduction within the Railways. Other topics recalled include: health and safety issues; concerns over asbestos; wage freeze by Kirk Goverment; Compulsory Medical Retirement in 1972; relationship between RTA and Accident Compensation Corporation; education programmes; RTA Journal; Federation of Labour Transport Union Committee; RTA protest over Vietnam War; opposition of Otahuhu branch to Springbok rugby tours; support for international strikes; strike in Twizel; campaign for allowances for apprentices; 1966 strike; Save the Rail Campaign; Employment Contracts Act (1991): sale of New Zealand Rail, with reference to Wisconsin Rail and Ruth Richardson. Mentions Jack Marshall, Tom Skinner, Norris Collins, Trevor Gebbie, Ken Douglas, F P Walsh, Norman Kirk, Koro Wetere. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007578-007582 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4.11 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1914.

Date: 8, 9 July 1999 - 08 Jul 1999 - 09 Aug 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Barnard, Francis Edmund, 1925-2001

Reference: OHInt-0478/30

Description: Frank Barnard born Auckland 1925. Recalls history of unionism in family - mother union delegate in an amunitions factory in Geelong (Australia). Describes growing up in Freemans Bay (Auckland) and refers to soup kitchens and poverty. Mentions the Ponsonby Gang. Discusses police and their treatment of workers. Recalls joining R & W Hellaby (Butchers) before starting on the Waterfront in 1946/47. Discusses work on the wharves, 1951 Waterfront Lockout and the word scab. Refers to blacklisting. Talks about Auckland Waterside Workers Union (WWU). Refers to loyalty card and the use of it. Mentions Mount Park dispute (over hatches); Roosus shipping and work on the Fort Colan (?). Recalls joining Freezing Works 1952/53. Discusses progression through the Auckland Freezing Workers Union and election as President. Mentions Trevor Kelly, Big Lofty Urlich, Ross Evans and Jack Armstrong. Recounts introduction of CAMPAC (rail beef dressing). Other topics discussed include: involvement of women in the union; Auckland Trades Council; Equal Pay; changes in the meat industry; ACC system; formation of North Island Federation; disaffiliation from the National Meatworkers with reference to Disputes Committee; strike for back pay and intervention of Rob Muldoon; arguments with Fintan Patrick Walsh; 1991 Employent Contracts Act (ECA) which he considers was designed for employers; Employers Association with reference to Ann Knowles; illness and disease with reference to Brucellosis, Leptospirosis and Toxoplasmosis and its effect on women; Auckland Disputes Committee; strikes and wild cat strikes; Arbitration system; militants in the union; loss of members through redundancy and its effect on union finances. Mentions: Tom Collerton, Frank Thorn, Roger Middlemas, Syd Arnst, Frank McNulty, Leo Bernie, Blue Kennedy, Charlie Duane, Fintan Patrick Walsh, Dick Evans, Trevor Kelly, Rob Muldoon, Tom Skinner, Tom Shand and Jim Knox. Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007529-007532 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.25 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1907.

Date: 1991

From: Wrathall, Bill, 1931-1995:Six original political cartoons drawn for Truth 1989-1991.

Reference: A-341-180

Description: Finance Minister Bill Birch is driving a heavy steam roller. The roller is labelled 'Employment Contracts Act' and is crushing hundreds of tiny people. The wheels of the roller are labelled 'Donated by the [Business] Round Table'. At the bottom of the cartoon a small kiwi comments "Nil bastardium carborundum". Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, white-out and grafix shading medium on grafix card. 335 x 400 mm. Provenance: Donation: Mr Mike Robson, Independent Newspapers Ltd, Wellington, 2000.

Date: 1911-1912

By: Grice, Sumner & Company

Reference: MS-Papers-6524

Description: Copy for Capt Hansen of agreement made under the Niue Island Emigration Ordinance 1903 and amendment 1904 and Niue Islanders to work on Malden Island for 10 months to load and unload, moor and unmoor vessels; includes details on rations, wages, health matters and liability (1911). Also letter from the Niue Gang to the manager on Malden Island, asking to be released from the agreement because so many of the `boys are sick and four have died', and requesting they be allowed to leave on the `Triton' on her next passage, signed by three men on behalf of the gang (22 May 1912). Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss and typescript (carbon) Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr G E Conklin, Olympia, WA, USA, Mar 1999

Date: 2000

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-

Reference: H-644-001/023

Description: Strip cartoons. Standard of NZ cartoonists, NZ immigration and choosing the 'right' people, young NZ'ers more interested in tennis than rugby, the Bledisloe Cup is all anyone is talking about at the moment, the business of forcasting economic doom, public boredom with politicians antics, food labelling, attacks on newsprint media for printing 'bad news' stories, new Employment Relations Bill and its down side for workers, politicians funnier than cartoonists, NZ's shrinking dollar, the value of participation in sports, lack of good news for NZ'ers, dangers of watching too much television, Reserve Bank scare tactics, NZ emmigration and brain drain, NZ dollar gets consumed by the American dollar, uncertainties generated by Maori/Pakeha debate, advertising creatives try to sell Fiji to the public after the coup, middle class double standards about boxing, public outcry and interest in topless parties, American criticism of NZ Defence spending, the discontent engendered by ACC placing monetary values on body parts, the public search for the best petrol prices. Quantity: 23 digital print(s). Physical Description: A4 size colour print-outs.

Date: 2002

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-; Otago daily times (Newspaper)

Reference: H-675-016/033

Description: Cartoons on New Zealand and international political and social issues. Comment on New Zealands cancer treatment compared to Australia. Verbal sparring between Helen Clark and Bill English. Helen Clark looking forward to Bill English being plastered in the boxing ring and he referring to her art fraud incident. Comment on rural doctor shortage. Rural famlies resort to taking their children to the local vet. Shows Labour Finance Minister, Michael Cullen, fishing (electioneering) with a tin of fat worms (budget). Shows small boy asking his father to borrow his gun for the nativity scene at school. Cartoonist Tom Scott receives a Doctorate from Massey University. The agitated voice of Rob Muldoon comes from the sky. Shows National Party President, Michael Boag in a box. Bill English asks National Party Divisional Conference delegates to form an orderly queue to try the magic trick of cutting her in half. Comment on Jeff Wilson's retirement from international rugby. Shows Helen Clark and Peter Davis in trenchcoats, hats and sun glasses with an umbrella. Passersby wonder if she's worried about the hole in the ozone layer or the holes in the Kyoto Protocol. Comment on the perceived waste of money within the Maori Television Service. Shows Helen Clark having cut free the Employments Contract Act now has a large cat (wildcat strikes) on her back. Comment on teachers anger and frustration with Labour's Education Minister, Trevor Mallard's dealings throughout the teacher contract negotiations. Shows Helen Clark and her husband Peter Davis in the kitchen, Peter is preparing a picnic as he heard Helen say that once Michael Cullen had presented his budget they would go to the country - i.e. set the date for the election. Comment on so-called 'Maori bashing' of Derek Fox for his handling of the Maori Television Service engagement of Cheif Executive, John Davy. Shows a shearing shed scene. Comment on the popularity of Jim Anderton in the Wigram Seat, one shearer suggests the voters are like sheep in their blind acceptance of him. Shows two older people opening their front door to Bill English who is dressed up as a police officer in boxing gloves carrying his drawn truncheon (law and order). Comment on the clash of traditional Indian past-times of snake charming and lying on beds of nails to intensify the practitioners mental state, with the new order of nuclear weapons. Shows three tables in a restaurant and how they are divided to accommodate smokers, non-smokers and passive-smokers. Quantity: 18 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size horizontal photocopies

Date: 1903-1904, 1916-1917

By: Campbell Island Company

Reference: MS-Papers-1654

Description: Letter from W H Tucker to W Sievwright with proposed agreement for Shetland Islanders going to Campbell Island. Agreement between A Nicholson and Campbell Island Company and two certificates of discharge from ship, `Rachel Cohen'. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss Processing information: Formerly at Misc MS 790

Date: 2000

By: Tremain, Garrick, 1941-

Reference: H-619-001/035

Description: 35 cartoons on political and social subjects published in the Otago Daily Times. Topics include golf and rugby, the weather, National member of Parliament Murray McCully stirring up scandals, Prime Minister Helen Clark's pronouncements and policy on golden handshakes for S.O.E. executives, political mud-slinging, high petrol prices, US Presidential candidate George W. Bush's record in capital punishment, the Employment Relations Bill and the Labour government's response to public opinion, good faith bargaining, the police and sensitivity to maori culture, domestic violence among Maori, Helen Clark's leadership style, the Russian submarine disaster, the falling New Zealand dollar, junior doctors leaving New Zealand, Maori grievances, the treatment of aborigines in Australia, emigration from New Zealand, the use of the word 'holocaust' by the Associate Minister of Maori Affairs, the Waitangi Fisheries Commission, prison conditions, Green Party protests against free trade, payouts to gang members. Quantity: 35 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: A4 horizontal photocopies

Date: 1860-1865

By: Bryant, James, 1812-1902

Reference: MS-Papers-1583

Description: Daybook kept by Bryant while a lessee of the Ames' Arms Hotel, Johnsonville, 1860-1863, including list of customers and accounts. Also record of employees' hours and wages, and costs when he was contractor of the coach road from Johnsonville to Ohariu Valley, 1862-1865. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy)

Date: 21 April 1994 - 21 Apr 1995

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project - Part II

By: McCaffley, Stewart, 1928-

Reference: OHInt-0059/12

Description: Stewart McCaffley born Liverpool 1928, educated Liverpool, evacuated to Wales during World War II. Recalls father and life during World War II in Liverpool with reference to Class System. Joined Army and became Army Middle-weight Champion. Speaks of difficulties changing from Army to Civilian life - reference to Kirby Shops. Talks about coming to New Zealand, working for Oil Company, driving a flat-top truck, and being a delegate for Drivers union. Recalls Communists in union. Refers to Bill Anderson. Talks about Clothing Workers Union and becoming General Secretary. Recalls joining New Zealand Labour Party and being Senior Vice-President of Party. Mentions: Gerald O'Brien; Jim Knox and Combined Trade Unions; Margaret Wilson; Joe Walding; Bill Rowling; Graham Kelly and Sonja Davies. Gives views on feminist vote and discrimination between men and women or people of different faiths. Talks about Employment Contracts Act. Comments on future of the Union Movement with reference to Dave Morgan of the Seamens Union. Recalls returning to Liverpool and the changes there. Venue - Rotorua Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006102 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1365.

Date: 30 August 1993 - 30 Aug 1993

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project - Part II

By: Chiles, Colin, 1941-

Reference: OHInt-0059/04

Description: Colin Chiles born Timaru. Recalls being at school in Dunedin, Gisborne and Lower Hutt. Talks about: social life; Church Bible class; apprenticeship as printer and spending 20 years in the industry. Recalls being National Secretary of the Printers Union with reference to Ken Baxter; the Media with reference to Rupert Murdoch and Blundell Brothers, the New Zealand Herald and the Dominion. Recalls joining New Zealand Labour Party - Princes Street Branch in Auckland. Refers to: campaign in 1966 of Michael Bassett for North Shore. Mentions Bob and Cath Tizard, Norman Kirk, John Kirk, Jonathan Hunt, Warren Freer, Mike Moore, Martyn Findlay, and George Gair. Recalls standing for Parliament against George Gair; relationship of New Zealand Labour Party with Trade Unions; Employment Contract Act and the results for the working people; State Housing and the benefits received from it; early environmentalists on the North Shore; and first meeting with Helen Clark while she was at university. Compares Helen Clark with Mike Moore. Also mentions Phil Goff, Peter Dunne, Roger Douglas, Richard Mason (CORSO), Bill Rowling, Colin Moyle, Arthur Faulkner and Jim Anderton. Talks about disillusion with the Rogernomics and leaving the Party. Recalls being Executive Director of CORSO. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Venue - Kelvin Chambers, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006034-006035 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.44 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1355.

Date: 10 March 1994 - 10 Mar 1994

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project - Part II

By: Grooby, Melvine Alexander, 1937-2005

Reference: OHInt-0059/09

Description: Alex Grooby born Motueka. Recalls finding boarding at Nelson College socially inhibiting. Outlines background. Gives origin of Grooby names - Nottingham, England. Talks of activities as delegate for teachers' union. Joined New Zealand Labour Party. Recalls being on Council 1978-1984. Talks about Policy of Council. Reference to argument on Council when Ken Douglas, (Secretary of Council), was to speak. Reference to Jim Anderton leaving Party. Comments on alternative budget of Roger Douglas. Mentions Tomorrow's Schools. Discusses Employment Contracts Act. People mentioned include: Ian Brooks, Arthur Falkner, Ruth Dyson and John Wybrow. Venue - Blenheim Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006043 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-1360.

Date: 17 Nov 1993

From: Slices of lives oral history project

By: Wintringham, Paul, 1945-; Gilbertson, Tim, active 1993

Reference: OHInt-0407-12

Description: Paul Wintringham born in Blenheim, family moved to Palmerston North where he received his High School education progressing to University, which he had to discontinue due to father's illness. After various jobs, he started as a freezing worker at the age of 27. Interview focuses on his involvement in Longburn Freezing Works as a union representative for the New Zealand Meat Workers Union. Describes a series of disputes between workers and management over a number of years from the middle of the 1970s until their final closure in August 1989 after a century of operation, leaving 800 people out of work. Discusses Brian Cuff, Longburn Manager. Awards/funding - Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Tim Gilbertson Recorded by - Tim Gilbertson Venue - West Coast Sub-branch, NZMWU Office, Pitt Street Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006828-006829 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1.30 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1583 and OHA-1583a (Additional material). 1 photograph Search dates: 1945 - 1993

Date: 9 March 1992 - 09 Mar 1992

From: Labour Movement Oral History Project

By: Cairns, Daniel Timothy Joseph, 1923-2000

Reference: OHInt-0056/36

Description: Daniel Timothy Joseph Cairns born Winton, Southland. Recalls: being brought up by grandmother on a farm; riding pony 5-6 miles to school at Rays Bush; work after leaving school; social life; World War II experience with New Zealand Division in Egypt, Japan; marriage and post war work experience in the Freezing works. Recalls involvement with Labour Party through Freezing Workers Union. Discusses issues concerned with the Unions in the freezing works, mistakes made on both sides. Comments on Management/Worker relationships. Talks about the Alliance Freezing Works and working at Comalco for ten years. Comments on new direction of New Zealand Labour Party being created by Employment Contracts Act and other changes made by National Government. Mentions Advocates Conference. People mentioned include: Aubrey Begg; Bill Rowling; Norman Jones; Jim Knox; and Ken Douglas. Venue - Invercargill Interviewer(s) - Robert Paton Venue - Hensley Street, Invercargill Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-004938 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB-0933.

Date: 18-23 February 1999 - 18 Feb 1999 - 23 Feb 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: McNulty, Francis Edward, 1914-2002

Reference: OHInt-0478/35

Description: Frank McNulty born Lyttelton 1914. Recalls family history of unionism - father and grandfather on executive of Lumpers Union (Watersiders). Father, ex Navy seaman, served on HMS Philomenal. Recalls joining Watersiders in 1921 and Depression, with reference to sustenance allowance for single and married men. Outlines history of National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM). Recalls first Labour Government and public works schemes. Mentions George Mouncel. Other recollections include: joining the Seamens Union and confrontation with F P Walsh; petition for jailed striking Greymouth Seamen; joining the Labour Party; involvement with the Communist Party; background to becoming a wharfie; 1951 Waterfront Lockout; Port Committee, Disputes Committee; relief committees during 1951 Lockout and the Holland Government. Outlines memories of Toby Hill. Also mentions Jock Barnes, Alex Drennan and Johnny Mitchell. Discusses losing job in wharf and joining Bothwicks freezing works. Recounts rise through union at Bothwicks and campaign for one national meatworkers union. Outlines views on compulsory unionism. Discusses hygiene regulations; health and safety issues; 1973 Commission of Inquiry into Meat Industry; Springbok Rugby Tour; expulsion from Communist Party; Socialist Unity Party; similarities between waterfront and freezing industy; compulsory arbitration and resistance by unions to restrictions on strikes; Icecream Workers Union; Employment Contracts Act. Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007569-007573 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 4.42 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1912. Photocopy of 1 photograph of [Frank McNulty]

Date: 3, 5 November 1999 - 03 Nov 1999 - 05 Nov 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Hampstead, Lois Ann, 1947-

Reference: OHInt-0478/12

Description: Lois Hampstead born in Wanganui and moved to Glen Innes where she grew up. Describes living in a Transit Camp (Camp Bun) in Panmure after World War II. Refers to Judy Attenberger and Bruce Fowler (NDU organisers) who also lived in camp. Recalls family history of unionism. Mentions early involvement in union with reference to Shop Employees Union and briefly a member of the Clerical Workers Union. Explains how play centre politicised her. Recalls network of women in the play centre movement and influence of feminist movement upon play centre. Worked for Meadowbank Foodtown Supermarket and describes conditions. Refers to Dave Wicken. Recalls strike in the mid 1980s. Explains becoming union delegate and outlines progression through union, being elected to Butchers and Growers union executive, then vice president (Auckland) and then National Retail president. Recalls amalgamation with National Distribution Union (NDU) in 1987. Explains membership of Women's Committee of Distribution Workers Federation, setting up structures for women and Maori and mentions how these structures have gone since the 1991 Employment Contracts Act (ECA). Outlines work for NDU as retail organiser (especially supermarkets) and explains difficulties of being responsible for women's issues in the union and structures within NDU to represent women. Discusses Equal Pay and opportunities in supermarkets, also agitation over Saturday and Sunday trading. Describes structure of Distribultion Workers Federation; Drivers Union and General Workers Union. Outlines relationship with Foodstuffs (Northern) and Farmers Trading Company. Mentions Youth rates and Penal rates. Lists improvements since 1995: additional annual leave; protection of Statutory holidays; clothing and service allowances. Recalls and describes disputes involved in: Mangere dairy; Hydra Baking Company; Freightways strike; Farmers Trading Company dispute after the ECA - mentions they were the first retail company to lock their workers out; Foodtown dispute in 1994. Discusses impact of Rogernomics and deregulation. Recalls disharmony in the union over the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) and ballot on question of affiliation and NDU disaffiliating from the Labour Party. Discusses impact of 1991 Employment Contracts ACT (ECA) - huge loss of membership. Discusses the Labour Relations Act. Discusses role of women in the future union movement. People mentioned include: Sonja Davies; Maryan Street; Peter Conway (Secretary NDU); Owen Harvey; Kirsty Campbell and Glenda Hinchy. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007476-007479; OHLC-003561-003564 Quantity: 4 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3.04 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1889.

Date: 9, 16 October 1999 - 09 Oct 1999 - 16 Oct 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Wetere, Susan Jane, 1949-

Reference: OHInt-0478/14

Description: Susan Wetere born Wanganui. Outlines family background - father came from Wales in 1927, trained at Flock House and worked on farms, freezing works and railways. Refers to his involvement in the 1951 dispute and becoming a `board-walker'. Mother worked at Hatricks, Wanganui. Recalls schooling at Tiwhiro school and Wanganui High School; work in Wellington post office as trainee cadet in Telegraph Departmemt, training at Trentham Training School (Post Office). Recalls job in staff training office in Phonogram section and involvement in Post Office Association. Gives impressions of the Post Office Association. Recalls delivering telegrams during Wahine storm. Discusses change of employment to Victoria House (University hostel) and backgrounds involvement in the Hotel Workers Union (HHWU). Mentions Liz Tennet and Ken Howe. Recalls becoming Regional Convenor of Women's Committee in 1992. Mentions Liz Lelo and Winnie Watene. Recalls National Conference of Women's Committee and introducing Child Care remit. Discusses Food and Beverage Workers Union and refers to Stan Spinks. Explains challenge of organising casual part-time workers and recalls use of contracting since the Employment Contracts Act 1991 (ECA). Explains system of union education. Discusses compulsory unionism. Talks about relations of Service and Food and Workers Union (S & FWU). Mentions: Anglea Foulkes, Darien Fenton, John Ryall, Shaun Drummond, Jim Anderton and Helen Clark. Explains WASH (Womens' Action for Service and Home Care Workers) and its achievements. Discusses Contract Labour Campaign and example of Contract Cleaners. Discusses Contract Cleaners Exhibition and involvement in negotiations. Discusses use of strikes and pickets and gives examples: Wellington Hospital lockout; IHC strike in Palmerston North; Romanos Pizza Workers; Cleaners at Ministry of Defence. Recalls union agitation around the proposed Holidays Act of Max Bradford. Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007471-007472; OHLC-003536-003537 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1891.

Date: 19-22 April 1999 - 19 Apr 1999 - 22 Apr 1999

From: Trade union oral history project

By: Malcolm, Bruce Anthony, 1935-

Reference: OHInt-0478/31

Description: Bruce Malcolm born Port Chalmers. Recalls history of unionism in family - father and brother both watersiders, father a member of Dunedin and Port Chalmers branch WWU, went through 1951 Waterfront Lockout. Recalls serving time at Hillside workshops as a fitter, hours of work and belonging to Engineers Union. Refers to Apprentice Engineering Committee. Commenced working on wharf 1957. Discusses PC branch (Port Chalmers) of the Waterside Workers Union (WWU), explaining the composition. Refers to Timaru dredge and GPO 385 (General Principal Order). Discusses progress through the union. Mentions: Bill Richards, Neil Critchton, Norman Agnew, Cliff Skeggs, Ray Fergus, Bill Wright and Arthur Morris. Other topics discussed include: struggle with the more powerful unions; shift work; award negotiations with reference to pressure on employers from the Business Round Table; bonus payments; Employment Contract (1991); Waterfront Industry Commission; contribution of watersiders to Society; technology, with reference to introduction of forklifts and palletisation, containerisation and its impact; introduction of Watersiders' superannuation fund and introduction of compulsory retirement; equity fund; involvement in health and safety, with reference to danger of loading logs and accidents; affiliation to the Labour Party and relationship with Fourth Labour Government. Interviewer(s) - Shaun Ryan Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-007551-007555 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1908.

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.