Story: Ngā uniana – Māori and the union movement

Des Tarau, Warren Weston, Joe Crowe, Tony Winther and Dave Kimura prepare to return to work at the Gear Meat works in Petone after striking for almost seven weeks in 1981. Ironically, later that year in the off-season, the works were quietly closed down. It took a nine-day national strike to gain a redundancy agreement for the workers.