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FIRST is the union for workers in textiles and clothing, laundry and baking industries.

Laundry worker Paul Watson is the Textiles Sector Secretary of FIRST Union.

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Summit Closure ‘Devastating’

Article Date:
Thursday, March 28, 2013

On January 31 Summit Wool Spinners announced the closure of its Oamaru mill with the loss of 192 jobs.

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They’re taking our jobs away

Article Date:
Thursday, March 21, 2013

“It’s the most ridiculous idea I’ve heard” said one laundry worker at Wellington hospital about the news that District Health Board wanted to close the laundry, with the loss of up to 40 jobs.

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61 re-employed while owner assesses plant

Date of Release:
13/03/2013

The long-term future of the Summit Wool Spinners plant in Oamaru will not be known until May at the earliest, with new owners Godfrey Hirst employing 61 workers in the interim.

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MPs hear of human cost of falling manufacturing

Date of Release:
12/03/2013
Former Summit Wool Spinners staff member Sharon Solomon said the sale of the carpet yarn exporters by its Japanese owner, Sumitomo Corporation, would put 160 people out of work and would mean $11 million less in the local economy.

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Redundant workers fear 'no future' in manufacturing

Date of Release:
11/03/2013

An opposition inquiry into manufacturing has heard from workers who fear for their future in the sector.

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