When Affco locked out 120 union members at Horotiu, meatworker Drew Fletcher was one of the unlucky ones. He says the hardest thing about being locked out this Easter is the effect on his children.

More than $2 million was paid out last year to departing public chief executives - with one boss taking away a parting package close to $350,000.

The Maritime Union has accused Ports of Auckland of leaking employee records to a right-wing...