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.

A union representing wood processing workers says concerns it expressed last week about the state of the wood industry have been confirmed by manufacturing figures out today.

The government’s refusal to implement plans to tackle the high NZ dollar is stopping unemployment from coming down as quickly as it could, a union for workers in the productive sector said today.  Unemployment remains high, at 6.5 per cent, in today’s Household Labour Force Survey.