After workers at the Open Country Cheese company site at Waharoa in Waikato voted to walk off the job this week; it seems that the New Zealand Dairy Workers Union (NZDWU) is ready to organize its first industrial action in 20 years.

It should be noted that when the union employees accused the company of failing to negotiate a fair collective agreement, they went on a strike for eight days.

It was specified by the NZDWU via a statement that working conditions continued to be intolerable, though it was not requesting an across-the-board wage increase for employees any longer.

It specified that a "sham employment agency" was set by the Open Country Cheese, New Zealand’s second biggest dairy processor, to make a number of on-call and temporary staff to undermine union negotiations, and had compromised the quality of the factory's product.

It will be on 9th September that further negotiations between union officials and the company’s management would take place.