Andrew Little (EPMU)
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This article is about the New Zealand trade union leader, for the Canadian politicion see Andrew Little
Andrew Little is the national secretary of New Zealand’s largest trade union, the EPMU. A postion he has held siince 2000.
He was educated at Taranaki Boys’ High and studied law, philosophy and public policy at Victoria University in Wellington in the 1980s, during which time he was active in the campaign against New Zealands student loan scheme and was elected president of the Victoria University Students’ Association, and later became national student president. After graduating he took a job as a lawyer with the Engineers’ Union (a forerunner of the EPMU). In 1997 he was appointed the union’s general counsel (chief lawyer). Two years later, he was appointed assistant national secretary, and was elected national secretary when Rex Jones stood down from the position a year later.
