The country's most powerful medical laboratory group, half owned by the government, is proposing to slash the medical lab workforce in the upper South Island.
Awanui, which is worth half a billion dollars, has told staff in Nelson the move is part of centralising its nationwide services to make them "sustainable".
Union organiser David Munro is from APEX, a specialist union for allied, scientific and technical employees in New Zealand.
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He spoke to Corin Dann.
