A few facts about the lock-out and Progressive Enterprises

For your edification (and mine - I didn't know some of this stuff either):

• NDU Workers in Auckland and Christchurch earn between 80c - $2.50 per hour less than their colleagues doing identical work in Palmerston North.
• The workers are seeking for Progressives to recommit to a national collective agreement. The company had agreed prior to the Australian takeover last year. Now the company has locked workers out until they drop this claim. That's right, a claim they had previously agreed to.
• Last year Progressives announced a 24.3% increase in profits to $A1.1 billion. This is not a company that can legitimately cry poor. Unlike these distribution workers.
• Progressives' CEO made over $A8 million last year. That's in Aussie dollars. Even if all the workers got full and immediate pay parity (as opposed to stepping it in) and an 8% pay rise it wouldn't even touch the size of the CEO's pay packet.

More fuel for the fire I guess.