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Press Release – First Union Last week’s illegal lockout of Wellington-based NZ Bus drivers has yet again shown us that private businesses simply aren’t fit to run New Zealand’s bus systems, with this lockout becoming the latest in a long line of failures and breakdowns under the ‘PTOM’ privatisation experiment that must end now, FIRST Union said today. The Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM) is a framework developed in 2009 between Government, councils and private operators like NZ Bus that underpins the delivery of bus services around the country, and represents the most rece...

The mill, which makes packaging, has been exporting mostof its products to SIG, which has since found an alternative supplier. It is one of Whakatāne's largest private employers and many of the workers are second or third generation workers. Christel Yardley/Stuff Whakātane has been worried about the mill’s closure, coming hot on the heels of Covid-19 and the Whakaari eruption which has severely impacted its tourism sector. However, SIG warned that closure was still “a very real prospect, and steps to work through the wind-down process will continue unless a binding deal is reached�...

Unions say the closure will be "devastating" for the community, which is still reeling from the Whakaari/White Island eruption and Covid-19.

The closure of Whakatāne Mill has been confirmed, with over 150 skilled operational workers being made redundant after 85 years of operations. FIRST Union and E tū say that while vital the impact on the local community will be significant, there ...

Other mills could follow Whakatāne mill's proposed closure, union says.