Day: 21 January 2005

Labour shortage claim has been blown out of water

The Mar­itime Union says that its fears about short-term casu­al labour being intro­duced into New Zealand have been con­firmed.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says the intro­duc­tion of more cheap for­eign labour into the New Zealand fish­ing indus­try is the death knell for New Zealand fish­ing employ­ment.