Port Otago workers reject company restructuring proposal

Port Chalmers stopwork meeting, 12 August 2009

A com­bined union meet­ing at Port Ota­go today vot­ed to reject new restruc­tur­ing pro­pos­als from Port Ota­go man­age­ment.

Around 200 union mem­bers attend­ed a stop­work meet­ing at 1pm which halt­ed work around the port and packed the Union hall in one of the largest meet­ings of recent years.