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DunedinDecember 22

Rally helps keep Hillside hopes alive

DunedinMay 14

Many a handy thing in workshops auction sale

Looking for a robotic welder?How about a railway locomotive wheel-cutter? Or a prototype railway wagon? It comes without wheels, but if you had a railway locomotive wheel-cutter, you could make your own.

DunedinFebruary 17

Working party's job over for now

Members of the now defunct Hillside working party are willing to join forces if or when the need arises in the future, chairman John Christie says.

DunedinDecember 12

90 jobs to go in partial Hillside sale

Nearly 90 workers face redundancy, with the news only part of Kiwirail's Hillside Workshop in Dunedin has been sold.

DunedinNovember 18

Labour promise of reopening Hillside

The Labour Party has committed to re-establishing the Hillside workshops in Dunedin if it forms the next Government.

DunedinSeptember 11

'Cold comfort' over wagons

Hillside Engineering Workshops staff who missed out on the contract to manufacture new wagons are being asked to repair faulty Chinese-made wagons.

NationalAugust 7

Chinese-built wagons needed brakes replaced

Dunedin South Labour MP Clare Curran has come out swinging today after news that the brakes on 500 Chinese-built freight wagons ordered by KiwiRail had to be replaced before they could hit the tracks last year.

DunedinApril 28

Unified front to help sell Hillside

Dunedin's city leaders have officially put up a unified front to do whatever it takes to smoothly roll through the sale of Hillside Engineering.

DunedinApril 27

KiwiRail putting Hillside up for sale

KiwiRail is seeking expressions of interest for the sale of Dunedin's Hillside Workshops.

DunedinApril 27

Hillside decision 'best one' for city

Despite KiwiRail seeking expressions of interest for the sale of Dunedin's Hillside Engineering, the city's business community and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union are confident Hillside can survive.

EditorialApril 20

Saving Hillside Workshops

Hillside is to be sold. While it is heartening to observe the optimism at the news emanating from parties connected to, and associated with, the long-standing South Dunedin heavy engineering business, only time will tell whether there is any realistic basis for it; and whether, several months hence, the 123 or so remaining skilled staff will still have employment, and Dunedin a potentially key operation in its cluster of remaining engineering companies.

DunedinMarch 6

Hillside hopes dashed

A petition to save Hillside jobs has been rejected by a parliamentary select committee.

DunedinFebruary 24

Hillside rehires workers on fixed contracts

Kiwirail is seeking to rehire six rail engineers to work at its Hillside Workshops in South Dunedin on fixed-term contracts.

DunedinFebruary 24

Problems with KiwiRail wagons after Hillside shunned

KiwiRail's controversial decision to have its new freight wagons made in China may have backfired.

NationalNovember 25

Goff has message of hope for Hillside

Labour leader Phil Goff was in heartland territory yesterday as he visited the Hillside Engineering workshops in South Dunedin.

DunedinNovember 16

Hillside workers vote no confidence

Workplace relations at Hillside Engineering appear to have soured further after workers passed a vote of no confidence in their KiwiRail managers at a union meeting yesterday morning.

DunedinOctober 6

Hillside may benefit from Spanish deal

Workers at Dunedin's Hillside Engineering workshops hope to benefit from a Spanish company's $500 million deal to build electric trains for Auckland.

DunedinSeptember 9

Union renews rail jobs call

The union behind redundant Hillside rail workers has renewed calls for Parliament to address the concerns of almost 14,000 people who want to keep rail-manufacturing jobs in New Zealand.

DunedinSeptember 5

Parliamentary select committee to consider Hillside jobs petition

A parliamentary select committee is scheduled to consider a petition from almost 14,000 mainly Dunedin-based signatories, as last-ditch efforts to retain engineering jobs at the Hillside workshops continue.

BusinessAugust 29

KiwiRail stops cuts after 10 quit

A round of proposed job cuts at KiwiRail's Woburn, Lower Hutt, workshops has been halted after a group resignation of workers pre-empted it.

BusinessAugust 22

United on impact of redundancies at Hillside

Hillside worker redundancies, after owner KiwiRail decided to accept Chinese tenders to build rolling stock, have united opponents across the political and business divide.

DunedinAugust 9

MP hopes Hillside petition will help workers' case

A petition containing thousands of Dunedin signatures was presented at Parliament yesterday by railway workers from the troubled engineering workshops at Hillside, Dunedin, and Woburn, Lower Hutt.

DunedinJuly 30

Further layoffs at Hillside

Hillside Engineering employees were left reeling after a meeting yesterday afternoon, at which KiwiRail managers announced more jobs will be cut from the workforce than was first proposed a month ago.

DunedinJuly 30

Staff plan to boycott CEO's visit

Hillside workers will find out the fate of 40 job-threatened positions at the South Dunedin engineering workshop this afternoon, but not before they make a last-ditch protest against the controversial KiwiRail proposal.

DunedinJuly 30

Hundreds turn out for Hillside

Songs and shouts of protest, led by Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull, have delivered a strong message to KiwiRail and the Government to save 40 jobs threatened at Hillside Engineering.