Kōrero: Unions and employee organisations

Council of Trade Unions leaders

Council of Trade Unions leaders

In 1987 the militant and moderate wings of New Zealand’s union movement joined to form the Council of Trade Unions. Key figures in the steering committee set up to form the CTU were (left to right) committee secretary Iris Williams, Federation of Labour (FoL) secretary Ken Douglas, Bank Officers’ Union president Angela Foulkes, Combined State Unions president Colin Hicks, and FoL president Jim Knox.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1987/1492/20
Photograph by John Nicholson

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Erik Olssen, 'Unions and employee organisations - Unions after 1960', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22288/council-of-trade-unions-leaders (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Erik Olssen, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010