24 Nov 2011

No deal reached in latest round of meatworker talks

6:47 am on 24 November 2011

No deal has been reached in the latest round of negotiations between meatworkers and the company embroiled in a dispute at Marton.

The Meat Workers Union and ANZCO Foods, which owns the Canterbury Meat Packers lamb-processing plant in Marton, went back to the mediation table on Wednesday.

The new talks came five weeks after the company locked out 100 union members when discussions for a new collective contract broke down.

Meat Workers Union negotiator Roger Middlemass says no agreement was reached and the workers will meet again on Thursday to figure out their next move.