2024 AGM

AGM Notice

5.15pm Event opens with food, mingling and copies of Lyndy’s book for sale.
6:00pm AGM of the LHP & Bert Roth Awards
6.45 pm Lyndy McIntyre talk The Power of the Story

Lyndy McIntyre speaks to the power of stories and how the stories of workers came together in her new book on the history of the Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa, Power to Win. The book explores how our lowest-paid workers and their unions can build power to win the Living Wage in alliance with the broader community. It documents the Living Wage Movement since the idea in 2011, the launch in Auckland in 2012, and the actions and campaigns over the following 10 years that delivered large pay increases to thousands of workers and changed the way we talk about wages in our country.

The story is told through the voices of low-paid workers and leaders and activists in unions, faith groups and community organisations who united around the goal of ending in-work poverty. Lyndy will focus on those courageous workers who often risked their jobs to speak out, how their story telling won the living wage, and the role of their unions in identifying potential story tellers of this history. The book sets out to inspire activism to build the community power necessary to win decent wages and transform the lives of workers, their whānau and their communities and to demonstrate how community organising can create real change and victories for workers, unions and community allies.

Copies of Power to Win will be for sale. Power to Win has been published by Otago University Press and printed in New Zealand by Pivotal, an E tū unionised site and a long-time fully accredited Living Wage Employer, where all workers, including the contracted cleaners, are paid a minimum of the living wage.