Finance and Information Workers Union

Finsec

Finance Sector Union
File:Finsec logo.png
Merged into	First Union New Zealand
Founded	1990
Dissolved	2011
Headquarters	Wellington, New Zealand
Location	New Zealand
Members	6600
Key people	Kelvin Pycroft, President Andrew Casidy, General Secretary
Affiliations	NZCTU
Website	www.finsec.org.nz

Finance and Information Workers Union (Finsec) was a small organising trade union covering about 6,600 workers in the New Zealand finance sector. It was formed in 1990 from the merger of the Bank Officers’ Union and the

Insurance Workers Union. [1] In October 2011 Finsec amalgamated with the National Distribution Union to create a new union called First Union New Zealand.

The majority of its members were located at the four big foreign owned banks in New Zealand; ASB, ANZ National Bank, BNZ and Westpac. However, it also covered legal employees, accountancy employees, stock and station employees and commerce workers, and a growing number of members work in call centres, information technology, communications and related industries. Finsec had offices in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch. It was an affiliate of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) and Union Network International (UNI).

External links

• Finsec official site.