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Kōrero: Unions and employee organisations

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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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-OCONNELL-Badges-Union-Selection

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

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

He kōrero nā Erik Olssen, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.