S2E5: Wairoa Meatworkers Lockout - NZ 2010 - 2016 Part 3

The final part of the incredible story of how meatworkers in the town of Wairoa stood up for working people in Aotearoa New Zealand, against a company owned by one of its richest families.  This is the story of their resistance and goes to the heart of strategic debate about what is symbolic vs what builds leverage.

We spoke with;

Peter Amato, Meatworker in the beefhouse at Wairoa and Meatworkers Union delegateSimon Oosterman, union organiser brought in by the CTU halfway through the dispute Ross Webb, an historian whose thesis was on the history of the Meatworkers Union

Ross’ brilliant thesis on the history of the Meatworkers Union and his Oral History Project of the lockout and a YouTube playlist of news coverageRNZ podcast about the 2015 experience in Wairoa

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Thanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title music

Thanks to Ethan Hunter for his music

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