Activists from
Keep Our Assets - Christchurch were at the
Back to Work Picnic held in Heathcote Domain today collecting signatures for the
Keep Our Assets petition and distributing a flyer that addresses the possible sale of Christchurch City assets – below some pictures from the event and links to both the
flyer distributed at the event and to the
latest newsletter.
One hundred and five years ago, January the 27th 1908, the
Blackball mine manager stood over
Pat Hickey with a stopwatch mine timing his lunch break - thus started the struggle to improve working conditions in the New Zealand mining industry - an event well worth marking.