Kinleith dispute – joint statement
Progress has been made in the Kinleith industrial dispute.
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union national secretary Andrew Little and Carter Holt Harvey CEO Peter
Springford today said that obstacles to making progress had been cleared away at a weekend meeting in Auckland.
Two hundred and seventy workers from the Tokoroa pulp and paper mill have been on strike since March 7. Intensive
negotiations for a new collective employment agreement will start tomorrow (Tuesday, May 13).