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This report outlines how Business New Zealand, The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, The Industry Training Federation and Workbase have joined forces to tackle workplace literacy. The following topics are covered: What is workforce literacy?; Why is literacy important to the economy?; How is New Zealand performing?; Why are literacy problems not obvious?; The need for action; and The key steps forward, which are: Raising understanding of the benefits; Improving access to training; Building scale; and Developing a plan.