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14 November, 2005
Members of ICEM affiliate Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU) of New Zealand staged a two-day strike on 7-8 November at Carter Holt Harvey’s (CHH) Kinleith pulp and paper mill.
The strike by the mill’s 270 production workers was over CHH’s refusal to meet the country’s recognised wage standard this year of 5%, and a demand by the company to cut annual leave time for shift workers. EPMU and CHH were scheduled to resume talks this week.
CHH is now 70% owned by Graeme Hart’s Rank Group Investments, an Auckland-based trader that has a NZ$3.3 billion hostile bid in play for the company. US-based International Paper Co. has divested its 50.3% stake in CHH to Hart.