Support the locked out workers at ANZCO Rangitikei

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Locked out workers at the ANZCO-CMP meatworks have now reached an agreement with their employer and will be returning to work soon. For 65 days over 100 workers were locked out because they wouldn’t accept a 20 percent pay cut and the removal of important conditions from their collective.

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CMP Workers back to work
8 weeks 6 days ago

The 111 CMP meat workers, who have been locked out since 19 October, have today accepted an offer from CMP and will be back at work by the New Year.
 

List of ANZCO-CMP Fundrasinig Pickets Around the Country on 17 December
9 weeks 5 days ago

Auckland

Midcity McDonalds, 260 Queen Street
Noon
Contact: Simon Oosterman
021 885 410
simon.aart.oosterman@gmail.com

Meatworkers urge ANZCO/CMP to enter facilitation
11 weeks 1 day ago

The New Zealand meat workers Union filed for facilitation services from the Employment Relations Authority on Friday, and urges ANZCO/CMP to come to the table and work with facilitators to resolve this dispute.

Union concerned about Samoan replacement lockout labour
11 weeks 3 days ago


The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions is concerned about reports that ANZCO is recruiting new workers in Samoa for its CMP Rangitikei plant.

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Secretary Peter Conway says managers were seen at the local airport flying to Samoa.

Major customer asks ANZCO to go back to mediation
11 weeks 3 days ago

Waitrose has asked ANZCO to go back to mediation and reach a settlement with locked out CMP Rangitikei workers.

Waitrose, an up-market British supermarket and the sixth largest chain in the country, buys ANZCO lamb for the important British Christmas market.

New Zealand Council of Trade Union president Helen Kelly says ANZCO hasn’t followed up on Waitrose’s request.

Lockout supporters fundraise nationwide this Saturday
11 weeks 6 days ago

Supporters of the locked out ANZCO CMP meat workers will fundraise outside of McDonalds nationwide this Saturday 3 December.

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly says fundraising events will be held from Whangarei to Dunedin with locked out workers joining Auckland, Hamilton, Wanganui, Bulls, Feilding, Palmerston North, and Wellington events.

Locked out workers reject new offer, lockout continues
12 weeks 2 days ago

The ANZCO CMP Rangitikei lock out continues as workers reject the company’s new offer at a meeting today.

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly attended today’s meeting and says the company hasn’t significantly changed their position and still wants pay cuts of up to 20%, shift changes and cuts to allowances.

ANZCO Workers Marching to McDonalds
13 weeks 1 day ago

Locked out workers will march from Palmerston North Mediation Services, 61 Rangitkei Street, to McDonalds Rangitikei St at 9:30am on Wednesday 23 November.

Key’s Access law locks out union
13 weeks 1 day ago

Helen Kelly, CTU President said today that  union officials are being denied access to the workers in the CMP Rangitiki plant which shows that John Key’s union access law is unreasonable and puts us at risk of being in breach of international conventions.

Locked-out single mum flies to UK to seek help from British unions
13 weeks 3 days ago

A locked-out single mother of eight flew to London today to ask for help from Britain and Ireland’s largest union.