Chip workers reject pay cuts

Workers have rejected pay cuts as the owners of McCain Foods in Feilding consider the future of the plant.

The company has said the potato-processing plant is underperforming and may have to close.

The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union said a draft collective contract from the company would cut allowances, amounting to a pay cut of up to 20 per cent for most unskilled staff.

The company said a decision on the plant's future was about a month away.