WILDCAT

Rights Information
Year
1981
Reference
F958
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1981
Reference
F958
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Feature
Duration
1:11:00
Production company
Vanguard Films
Credits
Production: Rod Prosser
Production: Russell Campbell
Production: Alister Barry

“A look at a strike from a startlingly different perspective, its cause and the battles between factions in the Timber Workers Union.” Onfilm, December 1996, p.10.

“The Combined Council of Delegates presents. WILDCAT. The struggle for democracy in the New Zealand Timberworkers’ Union.”

Delegates and workers discuss the issues that effect the Timberworkers’ Union, the reasons for the formation of the Combined Council of Timber Workers Delegates (CCD) and their industrial action.

Chapters:

The Safety Issue.
Structure of the Union.
Union Elections.
Obstructions to Organisation at Sub-branch Level.
The Welfare Fund.
Union-Management Collaboration.
7 August 1977, Formation of the CCD.
The CCD Shifts into Gear.
The Programme of Action.
15 September 1977, CCD Confronts National Executive.
Breakaway Union?
4 October 1977, All-Out Strike.
11 October 1977, A Mass Meeting is Called.
29 October 1977, A CCD Delegate is Sacked.
13 December 1977, Hamilton Visits Waipa Mills.
25 January 1978, Industrial Court Wellington.

Interviews: Willie Wilson, Ray Hamilton, Bernie Hornfeck, Maurice Kereopa, Joe Haigh, Colin Orbell, Alf Clark, Rens De Vries, Tony Corrigan, Terry Powell, Willie Wilson, Tom Murray, Mat Hohepa, Mike Parks, Bill Jones, Bert Messent, Wally Jeffs, Bill Gray, Malcolm Brooks, AO Murray, Hellena Morunga, George Hori, Wally Hooker, Sir Tom Skinner.