Unions and Union Membership in New Zealand: Annual Review for 2003

Abstract

This paper reports the results of Victoria University's Industrial Relations Centre's survey of trade union membership for 2003 in New Zealand. The survey carries on from our earlier surveys, conducted by the Industrial Relations Centre since 1991. As with all reports since the enactment of the Employment Relations Act (ERA), there has also been an increase in union membership in 2003. Union membership for the year to December 2003 rose 1.5 per cent, with the number of unions rising to 181. Union density is 21.4 per cent, unchanged from 2002 (both figures have been recently revised from that reported earlier, as a result of a population rebase by Statistics New Zealand). Thus, union recruitment has not been able to keep pace with strong labour force growth over the year.

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