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November 27, 2013
Multinational eats workers’ Christmas lunch
Waatea Team
Posted On November 27, 2013
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Laid off Tachikawa sawmill workers today picketed the Rotorua offices of the forestry company that has blocked payment of their redundancy.
First Union president Syd Keepa says the 130 workers are due up to $20,000 depending on length of service, and the receiver was getting ready to pay an interim 50 cents in the dollar before Christmas.
That was until Hancock Forestry Management went to court asking for full payment for logs supplied to the failed company.
Mr Keepa says by law the workers, most of whom are tangata whenua, should have first call on the money, not the giant multinational forest owner.
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