Scoop Images: Paliamentary Staff Fight Wage Freeze

Thursday, 29 October 2009, 3:48 pm
Article: Scoop Images

Parliamentary staff picketed parliament today as part of their fight for better pay and the maintenance of redundancy provisions.

Photos By Spike Mountjoy

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