For more than 140 years, the furnace men at A&G Price’s Thames jobbing foundry have begun the day with a shower of sparks. They found out on Wednesday that those days are now over.
Around 100 people have lost their jobs with A & G Price Limited in Thames announcing that the engineering company has gone into liquidation.
Workers ranging from foundry tradesmen, machinists, fitters, welders and engineers were told at a meeting held on Wednesday afternoon.
Foundry worker Shane Egan told RNZ that they were told their contracts were dissolved and, as of now, they were unemployed and not to come to work on …
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