Alliance Group meatworkers spill on to the street outside the Mataura Community Centre yesterday after learning sheep processing will shift to its Lorneville plant, near Invercargill. : Mataura losing 325 jobs
Alliance Group meatworkers spill on to the street outside the Mataura Community Centre yesterday after learning sheep processing will shift to its Lorneville plant, near Invercargill. : Mataura losing 325 jobs
Mataura meatworkers (from left) Tina Dudley (Gore), Liz Smith (Mataura), Anne Popenhagen (Gore) and Elaine Uren (Mataura) contemplate the bad news. : Mataura losing 325 jobs
Mataura meatworkers (from left) Tina Dudley (Gore), Liz Smith (Mataura), Anne Popenhagen (Gore) and Elaine Uren (Mataura) contemplate the bad news. : Mataura losing 325 jobs
Corey Bryan, of Gore, who has worked at the Mataura plant for 13 years in the boning room, waiting for the news to sink in. Photos by Peter McIntosh. : Mataura losing 325 jobs
Corey Bryan, of Gore, who has worked at the Mataura plant for 13 years in the boning room, waiting for the news to sink in. Photos by Peter McIntosh. : Mataura losing 325 jobs
Mataura losing 325 jobs
Mataura's future is uncertain after the township's biggest employer announced plans to shift its sheep processing from the Alliance Group's plant,...