Fifty people protested outside the Fiji High Commission in Wellington today as part of an international mobilisation for 200 ground handling workers at Nadi airport who have been locked out by Fiji Government-controlled Air Terminal Services.
The rally was attended by members of several Wellington unions and their supporters and representatives of Fiji community groups in Wellington.
“We were dismayed and angered to hear that after workers returned from their emergency shareholders’ meeting on 16 December, a meeting addressing issues of management of the company, sexual harassment and an 11 year pay freeze, they were locked out,” NZ Council of Trade Unions Secretary Sam Huggard said today.
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