Foodstuffs confirms closures

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For immediate release: 26 June 2015

Foodstuffs confirms closures

Foodstuffs has confirmed that it will close its Gilmours wholesalers in Henderson, Panmure and Rotorua as well as its Toops wholesalers in New Plymouth and Napier says FIRST Union General Secretary Robert Reid.

“FIRST Union represents workers at each site. We’re disappointed with Foodstuff’s decision.”

“The decision comes after a spirited community campaign to save Toops Napier. Workers and business owners united in an effort to keep the store open, yet Foodstuffs ignored them.”

“It seems that the ‘customer was not right’ in Napier and the company decided to keep with its closure plans.”

 “We are working with Foodstuffs to ensure that all redundant workers will receive redundancy pay, even if they do not have it specifically provided for in their employment agreement,” says Reid.

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The board of Foodstuffs confirmed its decision last night. Workers were informed this morning.  Closures of the wholesalers will take from late July to late August.

For further information and comment contact FIRST Union General Secretary Robert Reid: 021 535 933

ENDS

Morgan Godfery
Communications and Media Officer

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www.firstunion.org.nz


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2 COMMENTS

  1. When a low paid worker loses hours of work in redundancies the caregiver of the children may lose a significant amount of Working for Families because they no longer qualify on the inappropriate hours based formula . In 2011 the govt abolished “Restart” that enabled the full package to be paid for 16 weeks. With closures, earthquakes and floods happening with great regularity at very least the unions must demand that the govt stops tying child related payments to being in full time work.

  2. Just more rationalisation of our whole NZ economy planned by FJK and his NZ traitors as we become slave tenants in our own land by him and his traitors.

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