Westfield works in danger of closing
PA ’ Auckland ■Westfield, one of the three Auckland export ’ freezing works,': may close : unless i moves now being made to i strengthen the .economic effi- 1 ciency. of the plant succeed. Inquiries have substantial-i ed that at least a proportion of the 1100 people permanent- i ly employed at the works would lose their jobs in the < proposed reorganisation. i But Mr Peter Johnston, 1 group manager of W- and R. i Fletcher (N.Z.) Ltd, owner of 1 Westfield a and ‘ part of. ’the 1 large. Vestey meat enterprise, 1
described a figure of 400 as “alarmist and without basis in fact.” . “Certainly there will be some expected retrenchment in . manning to ensure Westfield’s continuance,” he said from Wellington, "but at this stage neither the company nor the union knows what the figure might be.” Mr Johnston repeated a company statement made last November that it did not want to close Westerfield, and that it had no plan to do so, but, he said, .Westfield had been losing money, and it had to face economic realities.
Westfield works in danger of closing
Press, 16 March 1981, Page 7
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