Union complains staff have to turn up at work

The Herald reports:

Unite Union says it had to abandon a demonstration at One NZ’s headquarters this afternoon over a change to the telco’s work-from-home policy – which now requires contact centre staff to work three days a week in the office, up from the previous two.

Can only work from home for two days a week now – oh the inhumanity.

Regardless, Unite will push ahead with its main protest action, which will see unionised staff work from home five days a week between January 15 and 26.

One NZ has about 2500 staff. It says 112 are registered members of Unite, including 70 in customer service roles.

So less than 5% of staff are union members. If I was one of them, I’d be very careful about defying the employer’s policy on turning up to work, as iy could be a sackable offence