Posts Tagged ‘lockouts’

Lockout lifted

Written By: - Date published: 5:47 pm, September 25th, 2008 - 27 comments

News just in: GO Wellington has lifted the lockout of its 300 bus drivers. The drivers say they are pleased the lockout is over and that they can go back to work but their campaign for a living wage will continue. This is a major backdown from GO Wellington, and confirms my suspicion that they’d […]

GO Wellington lockout: Day One

Written By: - Date published: 5:21 pm, September 25th, 2008 - 19 comments

A reader sent in this photo from the Wellington bus drivers’ picket line at the Kilbirnie bus depot. The workers are said to be staunch in their claims and are refusing to be intimidated by the company locking them out without pay. The Council of Trade Unions and the International Transport Workers’ Federation have now […]

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