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Tachikawa workers to protest outside forestry company today
Media advisory: FIRST Union
Wednesday November 27, 2013
Tachikawa workers to protest outside forestry company today
Tachikawa workers will picket the offices of a local forestry company in Rotorua today, who workers now understand is the company holding up the preferential payment of their redundancy pay before Christmas.
“Tachikawa workers have this week received letters from the receiver confirming that their payments will be held up because of a legal challenge by an unnamed forestry company,” FIRST Union president Syd Keepa said.
Workers now understand that the firm is Hancock Forest Management, he said.
“Tachikawa workers were expecting to get a substantial payment before Christmas of money owed to them from wages, redundancy and holiday pay.”
“It is an absolute travesty that the Tachikawa workers are facing a Christmas with no payment whatsoever, after money that the receivers have acknowledged they are entitled to cannot be paid because of this legal action by a forestry company,” he said.
Tachikawa workers will be joined on the picket by members of FIRST Union’s national executive.
What: Picket of Hancock Forest
Management.
Where: 283 Vaughan Rd, Te
Ngae, Rotorua.
When: 12 noon, Wednesday
November
27.
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