Waharoa dispute could be ugly
The dispute around the right to organise a union collective at Open Country Cheese appears to be turning nasty quickly. Union members escorted from the site 5 hours before the strike was due to start....
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How is it possible that the Department of Labour mediation service hasn’t got the parties together in the Open Country Cheese dispute. Here we have an employer continuing a lockout in clear defiance of...
View ArticleClandeboye visit
I’ve visited a couple of dairy factories before. At Konini when I was a kid there was one over the road from where Mum and Dad’s best man lived and we used to wander through. And when I lived in...
View ArticleOpen Country Cheese – exec meeting
Spent part of the morning with the Dairy Workers’ Union including some of the delegates from Open Country Cheese. Heard a lot about the dispute especially the role of Talleys’ the employer with the...
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