"Talleys-owned Open Country Cheese's insistence on running their plant without appropriate trained environmental staff is now causing serious environmental damage," said James Ritchie, National Secretary of the Dairy Workers Union.

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Government and public sector organisations have dominated the 2009 WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards, and judges say the private sector needs to catch up.

There were only 23 new planned projects, with an individual floor value of $5 mill +, newly announced during Aug 2009 in New Zealand, with a larger representation than normal of new projects coming from the energy (gas & oil) and mining industry.

Moving to part-time paid employment seemed a natural step for long-term volunteer, and service user, Te Amo Roberts.

For a long-time he's supported Downtown Community Ministry by helping out in the food bank and the annual book fair.

Released today by the Ministry of Tourism, international tourism expenditure (excluding airfares) is forecast to grow by an average of 4.7% per annum to reach $8.2 billion in 2015.

A meeting today of the CTU Food and Beverage Unions Group and the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) pledged support to the striking workers facing a 6 week lockout at the Talley company - Open Country Cheese in Waharoa.

A specialty clinical nurse at Nelson Hospital, Nano Tunnicliff, is NZNO's new president. Tunnicliff's election was announced at NZNO's annual conference, held in Wellington this week.

Rising house prices and interest rates combined in August to weaken home loan affordability to its worst level in 2009, the BNZ Home Loan Affordability measure shows.

David Chote has been appointed Head of Distribution with AMP Capital Investors New Zealand Limited.

Hyundai Motor Company, has been joined by other global automakers such as Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Honda and Nissan to urge governments, energy companies and other organisations to develop easily accessible and affordable hydrogen infrastructure to ensure the successful introduction of Fuel