Resene Paint's latest pay offer is "chump change", says a worker at its Lower Hutt plant, but the company says it is being consistent with the manufacturing sector.
A noisy protest of about 80 workers and supporters braved the rain to picket the company's head office in Naenae on Monday.
Union affiliated staff were striking to lift pay rates to meet the living wage.
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Union delegate Mags Jackson said she was disappointed to have to strike but the company's latest pay offer - which raised the average employees hourly rate by 84 cents - was "chump change".
She said negotiations had been going on with the company for almost a year.
"It's bullshit. It's like chump change.
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