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Story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement

New Zealand Workers’ Union membership ticket

New Zealand Workers’ Union membership ticket

The motto on this New Zealand Workers’ Union membership ticket, ‘Tatau tatau, altogether’, was suggested by pioneering Māori unionist and shearer Bob Tūtaki.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-LABOUR-Davies-1942-01

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Cybèle Locke, Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement – Māori rural workers and unions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/22938/new-zealand-workers-union-membership-ticket (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Cybèle Locke, published 4 March 2010.