Day: 17 June 2008

Temporary workers plan a recipe for disaster

The Mar­itime Union of New Zealand has attacked plans by employ­ers to bring in migrant labour into the seafood indus­try after mass lay­offs in the same sec­tor.

A week after Sealord con­firmed it would axe 323 jobs from its Nel­son mus­sel fac­to­ry, two South Island seafood com­pa­nies Tal­leys and Aotearoa Seafood have applied to import 100 migrant labour­ers.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says that the use of tem­po­rary labour being import­ed from over­seas threat­ens local employ­ment.