A rally to support locked-out Talley's Affco workers will be held in Clive Square in Napier on Saturday.
The Meatworkers Union members were locked out because the union did not agree to radical new terms in their collective contract their employer terms "modern".
The company has locked out only some of the union members, so it can keep its plants open.
"This dispute could end today if the company would take a more moderate approach to the bargaining and realise that it has a good loyal team of workers that simply want security around the amount they get paid week to week," Meatworkers Union, Aotearoa branch Secretary Graham Cooke said.
About 900 workers are locked out of Affco's eight North Island plants, including Wairoa, as negotiations over a new collective agreement drag into an eighth week.