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Kōrero: Unions and employee organisations

Voting to strike

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Voting to strike

‘All those in favour.’ A forest of hands goes up as librarians, members of the Public Service Association, vote for strike action in 1980. At that time white-collar unionists were at the forefront of union activity.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Herbert Otto Roth Collection (PAColl-4920)

Reference: PAColl-4920-3-5-01

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 – Unionism after the Second World War, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22277/voting-to-strike (accessed 4 June 2026).

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