[2011] NZEmpC 143 NZ Meat Workers & Related Trades Union Inc v CMP Rangitikei Ltd [pdf, 113 KB]
...resorted to locking out union members since 19 October 2011. It has been able to maintain production, or at least a temporarily sufficient level of production, using existing non-union labour and by using a growing number of employees who were formerly union members but have decided, in the circumstances, to sign individual employment agreements with CMPRL under which they are now working. [7] It is really only the current and prospective lockouts of union members with which t...