Partnership not merger of AgResearch & Lincon

Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 11:30 am
Press Release: Public Service Association

PSA Media Release
June 9, 2009
For Immediate Use

PSA agrees with partnership not merger of AgResearch & Lincoln

The Public Service Association agrees with the decision not to merge AgResearch and Lincoln University.

AgResearch and Lincoln University announced in March that they were investigating a merger.

AgReseach chairman Sam Robinson and Lincoln University Chancellor Tom Lambie have announced that there will be no merger. They say it will be more cost effective for the two organisations to work in partnership.

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“We believe AgResearch and Lincoln University have made the right decision to work in partnership rather than to merge,” says PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff.

“Amalgamation would have involved a disruptive and expensive restructuring.”

“We agree that it’s more cost effective for the two organisations to establish how they can work together to provide the research needed to help boost returns from the country’s farms.”

The PSA has 500 members working at AgResearch doing research that is vital to the productivity of the pastoral farming industry that generates 35% of New Zealand’s exports.

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