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Green Party Pushes Automatic Union Enrollment | Wellington News
The Green Party’s bold new proposal to automatically enroll new employees in unions—requiring opt-outs, not opt-ins, with the first month free—is sparking fierce debate. Aimed at reversing decades of declining union membership and empowering workers amid soaring costs, the plan has Labour backing unions broadly but withholding commitment to the specifics. The NZCTU applauds the move as a practical way to restore worker voice, while the Act Party fiercely opposes it, calling it government coercion that undermines true choice. This could be a defining policy for the Greens as negotiations heat…
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