Around 80 Resene Paints workers and supporters picketed the company’s Naenae head office as union-affiliated staff continued a strike seeking pay rates that meet the living wage.
Workers say the company’s latest offer—an average increase of 84 cents per hour and only eight cents above its previous proposal—falls far short, with long-serving employees still below the living-wage threshold.
Resene said its offer aligns with typical manufacturing-sector wage increases and that it will continue bargaining with the E tū union.
Local church members have been fundraising to support striking workers, while the union argues that lifting pay to the living wage would be minimal relative to the company’s revenue.
Unless the ‘competition’ of Resene’s is fully comprehended, like how does a good private company struggle to the extent of ‘bare-knuckle-wage-fistfights’ [this is expression of this commmentator] with a union…wth…what a union?
Is that a union really fighting for the workers who are employed in a traditional enterprise?
Traditional enterprises made this country Godzone!
A union that does not name and shame the root cause of the mire?
Yous can all damn owner [and I do not have any connection whatsoever] of a seemingly private enerprise.
Good on any of them of putting their butt out and share revenue with employees!
I think Resene is one of the old ones.
I think time is overdue to take a good hard look at dynamics.
I think time is overdue to take a good hard look at machinations that bleed our productiveness.
And union, I think THIS is your pivotal moment to shine or be relegated to history as a pimple.
But I think you have to grow fast some..