[2011] NZEmpC 33 Tertiary Education Union v Western Institute of Technology [pdf, 116 KB]
...be a significant in-road into what is otherwise a matter to be negotiated freely between the parties to the bargaining. He suggested this would be wholly inconsistent with both the statutory scheme as interpreted by this Court and the Court of Appeal. In the Service & Food Workers Union case, this Court found at para 96 that the Act “contemplates one set of negotiations for the same parties initiated either by a union or unions or by an employer or employers.” Mr Cook also...