For the past three and a half years, Benedict Ferguson has been working to create an active partnership between union members and Auckland Council – the only local authority in the country to have a full-time union delegate.
He spoke with Ruth Le Pla about the challenges of his role and his work to date.
Contrary to what many people...
How to boost biosecurity, recruit more cost-effectively, deliver news, consult more widely and build intranets that staff really want to use? Councils share the technologies and top-line learnings behind these and a host of other challenges. These handpicked award-winning digital projects were celebrated at the recent ALGIM Web and...
Auckland Council has an enormous opportunity to change the way it handles employment relations in the next five to 10 years. Chief executive Stephen Town details the plan.
What do council employees really, really want? Not certificates for good performance, that’s for sure. Morning teas don’t cut it either. No. As in most other...
