E tū represents around 7,600 members employed in roles within in the engineering, infrastructure, and extractions sectors.
We mine, make, shape and sustain New Zealand’s entire industrial economy.
EIE members have over 170 collective agreements and work across six EIE sectors in over 700 workplaces. We work in:
- Energy, mining and smelting – Aluminium and steel smelting. Coal, iron ore and gold mining. Oil and gas extraction.
- Engineering – Metal and machinery – including extrusion, fabrication, and assembly. Marine, agricultural, and industrial engineering.
- Timber – Milling and manufacture of solid wood, engineered and composite wood products.
- Building Elements – The manufacture of structural building components like doors, windows, fire systems, air-conditioning and framing.
- Infrastructure – local government services including utilities like gas supply, water and sewerage.
- Packaging – We produce and print rigid packaging materials from paint cans to cardboard boxes.
E tū members are standing together and standing up for working people the length and breadth of Aotearoa. We know that collectivism and unionism is the only way to have a real voice at work and achieve better terms and conditions.
EIE members want decent jobs that develop, recognise and reward skilled work. We want workplaces where all union members regardless of skills and experience have secure jobs and enjoy a Living Wage. We all work in industries that demand the highest standards of health and safety.
EIE members are working together to improve working conditions right now, but we are also thinking about the future of work. We are committed to helping apprentices, to achieving better trade qualifications and to ensuring better conditions for the many migrant union members joining us from overseas.
The future of our workplaces and the communities we live in are affected by a range of technological, environmental, and economic changes. That is why we are working to have Just Transition principles at the heart of all the industrial sectors we work in. So that E tū members have safe, reliable and and secure work and so we have a strong voice in what happens to our jobs and our industry.