Blueprints S2E3 - Wairoa x Talleys Meatworkers Lockout - NZ 2010 - 2016 - Part 3

Part 3! In 2010, Talleys, one of NZ’s biggest companies and owned by one of its richest families, took full control of the AFFCO Meatworks. It then embarked on a 5 year campaign to de-unionise it’s workforce. But workers in Wairoa and towns across the country said no. They were locked out 3 times in 5 years. 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 UnionRoss’ 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 WairoaFollow 1/200 on Twitter (@1of200podcast), and host Huw Morgan (@huwcmorgan) or (@blueprintspod)Support 1/200 on Patreon so we can make more contentThanks to Masarima and Clone Records for the title musicThanks to Ethan Hunter for his music