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Toilet paper workers' stoush: Fresh negotiations as shortages felt
Kawerau's Essity mill's 145 workers have been locked out since August 9 without pay.
Kawerau's Essity mill's 145 workers have been locked out since August 9 without pay.
The company has threatened 67 employees to pay almost $550,000 in damages.
There are 145 staff in their third week without pay.
'We've never been locked out', an employee of 22 years said.
Property and cash valued at nearly $420,000 have been forfeited after Kawerau drug raids.
Patients had no idea he was unqualified, a court has heard.
Three separate incidents involved three victims.
Local politicians have exchanged words over a new homeless report.
The rateable value of the Kawerau mill property has nearly halved since it closed.
Regional council: The penalty serves as a reminder to others about following the rules.
Kawerau workers expect to spend a lot of their income just to get to and from work.
Simon Littlefair was thrown from a moving vehicle, landing on his head.
The differences between green, orange and red are important to remember over summer.
Council chief executive says they're carrying out a proper assessment.
Most new cases are still in Auckland, where another person has succumbed to the virus.
The case was one of four announced in the Bay of Plenty today.
'There must be about 150 that are just lying idle, rotting into the ground.'
Five search warrants were executed in multiple Eastern BOP towns.
A woman died from critical injuries yesterday afternoon in the Bay of Plenty town.
The pedestrian hit by the vehicle was airlifted to hospital.
About 80 fishery officers searched eight East Coast homes with police in support.
Drug experts call for a Northland initiative tackling meth use to be rolled out across NZ.
Familiar faces filled the Kawerau Town Hall to reflect on decades of memories.
The mill birthed an entire town, what happens now?
Paper mill closes amid questions about what contamination it leaves behind.
The mill produced up to 150 tonnes of paper per year at its peak.
Production inside the mill has stopped and the clean up has begun for 160 workers.
In its 66-year history, the mill at Kawerau has provided intergenerational employment.
The mill closes with the loss of 160 jobs, 55% of them held by Māori, on June 30.
Kawerau bravely faces future without town's biggest employer.