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Schedule of Escalating Lockout Events
Press Release: National Distribution Union/Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union
Friday, September 08, 2006 11.00am
As the locked-out distribution workers enter their third week, community support, donations and actions are escalating, says the National Distribution Union
Please note the following important upcoming events. (Full details below).
Friday 11.30am Wellington: Special
CTU Affiliate Financial Support Meeting Friday 9.00am
Centra, Auckland: Progressive Supermarket Retail
Negotiations Continue into Second Day Friday 11.30am
Mangere, Auckland: Top International Graffiti Artists to
Spray Paint at Mangere
Friday: 11:30am Christchurch:
Christchurch Locked-out and Striking Workers March Friday
12.00am-Tuesday 12.00am: Progressive Meat Workers 2nd
Strike
Friday: Unions Discuss Solidarity Direct
Actions
Saturday: 12 Noon Mangere/Auckland: Public Rally
and Reggae For Locked Out Families
Saturday: 12 Noon
Palmerston North: Public Rally For Locked Out
Families
Saturday: 12 Noon Napier: Public Rally For
Locked Out Families
Saturday: 12 Noon Christchurch:
Informational Pickets at Supermarkets and Southmore Meat
Processing Plant
FRIDAY
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Friday 9.00am Centra,
Auckland: Progressive Supermarket Retail Negotiations
Continue into Second
Day
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Airport
Centra, cnr of Ascott Rd and Kirkbride in Mangere
Friday
11.30am Wellington: Special CTU Affiliate Financial Support
Meeting
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The
Council of Trade Unions will hold a special meeting of
affiliated unions in Wellington today to discuss more
financial support for distribution workers who have been
locked out by Progressive Enterprises.
Civic Suite of the
Wellington Town Hall on Wakefield Street.
Friday 11.30am
Mangere, Auckland: Top International Graffiti Artists to
Spray Paint at
Mangere
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New
Zealand's top graffiti crew, Disruptiv, whose members
recently won the Write4Gold World Finals in Germany, will
spray paint live a 6m mural at:
80 Favona Rd,
Mangere.
(Filming live, or with time capture photography
is encouraged)
Friday: 11:30am Christchurch: Christchurch
Locked-out and Striking Workers
March
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Starting
at the Trade Union Centre on the corner of Armagh St and
Madras St, the protest will march to the town
square.
Trade Union Centre on the corner of Armagh St and
Madras st
Friday 12.00am-Tuesday 12.00am: Progressive
Meat Workers 2nd
Strike
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20
out of 27 of Progressive's South Island meat processing
workers in the Meat Workers Union, earning 30% less than the
industry standard, are on their first day of a four day
strike.
Friday: Unions Discuss Solidarity Direct
Actions
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Trevor
Hanson, from the Maritime Union and X from the Railway,
union have been in joint discussions on solidarity actions
with Australian unions including the Maritime Union of
Australia, the Rail Tram and Bus Union, and the Transport
Workers Union, with donations already pouring in from major
Australian unions.
SATURDAY
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Saturday: 12
Noon Mangere/Auckland: Public Rally and Reggae For Locked
Out
Families
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Auckland
Locked out workers and their families will be holding a
public rally with reggae legend Tingi Ness (Father of Che
Fu, Unity Pacific), local upcoming reggae band "Three Doors
Down" and Maori R'n'B group "Kotuku."
Mangere Town
Centre
Saturday: 12 Noon Palmerston North: Public Rally
For Locked Out
Families
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12
noon at the Palmerston North town square.
Saturday: 12
Noon Napier: Public Rally For Locked Out
Families
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12
noon outside Napier Woolworths on Carlyle St
Saturday: 12
Noon Christchurch: Informational Pickets at Supermarkets and
Southmore Meat Processing
Plant
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Southmore,
2 Chain rd 40 km south of
Christchurch.
ENDS
http://www.nduunion.org.nz
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