There are calls for the Government to intervene and make sure Christchurch is rebuilt with New Zealand timber, milled by New Zealanders.

Staff at Briscoes want a cut of the company's $27 million profit.

A forestry union is calling for action following the death of a Marlborough forestry worker.

More jobs are going in the wood industry.

A suggestion that Progressive Enterprises is winning the supermarket wars.

Its competitor Foodstuffs, will make more than 100 employees from their lower North Island bases redundant resulting in cost savings of more than $4 million.

National Distribution Union general secretary Robert Reid says Progressive isn't having the same problems post the recession.