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Kōrero: Unions and employee organisations

Stop-work notice

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Stop-work notice

The 1970s saw the largest number of union disputes in New Zealand’s history. Most were small-scale and short-lived, like the stop-work meeting by Engineers Union members in the aircraft industry, announced by this handwritten notice in 1974.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 1/4-021654; F

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Erik Olssen, Unions and employee organisations – Unions after 1960, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22279/stop-work-notice (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Erik Olssen, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.