Benefits of membership

When you join you receive a membership card.
This will entitle you to the following benefits.

At work...

  • Negotiation and enforcement of your wages and conditions
  • Representation with problems and for legal cases
  • Paid union seminars
  • Free life skill courses

Funeral Benefit

  • Members get a free $1500 for accidential death.

  • Spouse and children are covered for $500 each.
  • You can increase it to $10,000 for just $2; then $5 a year.

Free Education Courses

  • Weekly classes
  • Mainly home-based.

  • Computer Course - Free home computer use.
  • First Steps to Business - Small Business Management
  • Basic Maori Language

Unite and Huljich want to help everyone into their own home

  • Join KiwiSaver and you get a free $1000 to start.

  • Both your employer and the government will give you 2% of your
    income.
  • You contribute 2% of your wages.

  • That makes $3 saved for every $1 you put in.
  • Invest $20 a week and you’ll make $4,000 (including the start up gift) within the first year.
  • Investment returns are additional.
  • After 5 years you get an another $5000 free for your first home deposit.
  • No other savings plan is better value.