[3] Grant Morgan was a Trustee in 2010, and Leonard Charles Parker and Peter Michael Hughes in 2012.

Solidarity was opposed to partnership as a policy, preferring to see a "return to the fighting spirit" of the country's first union movement, the Red Feds.

It built a modest base in the South Auckland industrial regions of East Tamaki and Onehunga, organising small engineering firms, glass workers, courier drivers and service workers.

[7] In September the union called for workers and students in Aotearoa to rally in support of Burmese anti-junta protests.

[8] Under New Zealand legislation (Section 16 of the Employment Relations Act 2000) a registered union must file an annual membership return.