Locked Out

I went to a Coutdown supermarket on the weekend. They'd run out of lots of vital products. The only thing they seemed to have in ample suppy was budget toilet paper. They must have stocked up on it, because it was everywhere. The managers seemed to have decided that shelves look less empty if they have toilet paper on them. If they had the one brand of jam and had run out of the other, they'd just put toilet paper in their instead.

The workers whose job it is to distribute goods within the Progressive Supermarket chain, have been locked out, and unable to do that job, for a week now. Mediation Friday and Saturday failed to reach a solution, and so it's going to be a long hard fight. The NDU is doing a fantastic job, but they can't win it by themselves, they need support and soliarity.

1. Go to the picket line in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch.

2. The locked out workers have no source of income - donations to the campaign are vital - 02-0200-0217968-00 with the reference “Supply Chain”

3. You can send a message to Progressive management really easily over at LabourStart.