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F&P Healthcare workers reject latest collective agreement
Thursday 22 September, 2011
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare workers reject latest collective agreement settlement offer
Fisher and Paykel Healthcare workers have rejected their employer’s latest collective agreement offer but have committed to take part in more talks next week.
Nine hundred F & P Healthcare production, maintenance and distribution workers, who are organised by the EPMU and NDU, rejected the company’s offer following a series of ratification meetings held at the plant all day yesterday.
“We are moving in the right direction but we are not there yet,” says Rachel Mackintosh, EPMU Director of Organising. “The unions and the employer will now take a few days to mull over the results of yesterday’s meetings and recommence negotiations on Monday (26 September).
There will be no industrial action in the
meantime.
Ms Mackintosh says the F & P Healthcare
workers are seeking a fair settlement that goes a reasonable
way to countering dramatic increases they face in cost of
living factors such as power, fuel, food and insurance.
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