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Women and union badges

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Women and union badges

‘A woman’s place is in her union,’ says one of these badges, used by New Zealand unions from the 1970s, when women became more prominent in the union movement than ever before.

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Erik Olssen, Unions and employee organisations – Unions after 1960, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/22286/women-and-union-badges (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Erik Olssen, published 4 February 2010.