Union will fight closing
A fight to keep open the only soft drink factory on the West Coast, Grogans and Blackmores Cordials, Ltd, Greymduth, will be made by the Liquor Trades Union. The South Island secretary of the union, Mr G. G. Walker, said yesterday that the union did not. consider that the factory needed to close. “We will not make a redundancy agreement and we will fight to keep the factory open,” he said. Mr G. P. Mensforth, general manager of Southern Bottlers, Ltd, a subsidiary of Ballins Industries, announced last week that the factory would close on December 31. Mr Walker said the union had been given a guarantee in August that the factory would remain open. "We held a meeting of the workers in Greymouth and told them that the company had assured us that the plant would remain open. The manager who gave us that assurance is now back in Adelaide,” he said.
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Press, 16 November 1981, Page 2
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