24 Nov 2025

Resene workers continue to strike over pay

From Checkpoint, 4:37 pm on 24 November 2025

"Chump change" is how one striking worker at Resene Paint in Lower Hutt has described the company's latest pay offer. A noisy protest of around 80 workers and supporters braved the rain to picket the company's head office in Lower Hutt today - as some workers remain at loggerheads with the company over pay. But Resene says they're being consistent with other salaries in the manufacturing sector. Bill Hickman has more.