Locked out worker to target McDonalds

Press release: New Zealand Meat Workers Union
Tuesday 22 November 2.40pm
Locked out worker to target McDonalds

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

ANZCO Foods locked out 100 workers at their CMP Rangitikei sheep processing plant on October 19 for not accepting pay cuts of up to 20%, shift changes and reductions in allowances.

The New Zealand Meat Workers Union and ANZCO CMP will be in mediation tomorrow morning.

ANZCO Foods is the primary supplier of burger patties for McDonald’s New Zealand.

NZCTU president Helen Kelly will announce a nationwide fundraising day outside McDonald’s on December 3 at the picket.

“We have asked McDonalds to support the locked out ANZCO CMP workers against these pay cuts but they’ve done nothing,” she said. “We’re publicizing this to McDonald’s customers and pointing out that along with the nice tasting beef burger is a bad after taste of poverty.”

In London, Britain’s largest union Unite is planning actions against Waitrose, the six biggest supermarket in the UK which is directly supplied by the Rangitikei plant.
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