Building work needs to pick up to keep workers in employment and ensure local sawmills stay in business, a union for wood processing workers said today.
Raw logs will continue to be shipped overseas unprocessed unless there is serious attention paid by the government to the wood processing industry, a union for workers in the sector says.
The union representing sawmill workers is seeking government intervention after an Upper Hutt mill announced it will close with the loss of up to 40 jobs.
As more sawmill job losses are confirmed, a union for wood processing workers is asking how many more mills will close before the Government admits there is a crisis.
