Support could be given by asking shops selling Talley's Affco to drop the lockout, donate $5 through a 0900 number and sign an online petition.
Locked out Affco workers in Rotorua protested outside McDonald's, a Talley's customer.
On Friday the Wairoa workers met Maori Party Co-leader and Minister of Maori Affairs Dr Pita Sharples at Takitimu marae.
Dr Sharples was attending a hui to discuss Maori representation on the Wairoa District Council but found the industrial dispute the main topic of conversation.
"Incidents of extreme hardship were laid out before the hui - of senior rangatira who have contributed hugely to their community, and who have worked for Affco Talley's for 30 years, facing the humiliation of going cap in hand to Winz for financial relief," Dr Sharples said.
"These are people in their 50s now, who have provided for their families and supported their community, but who are without the means to pay their mortgages, service their overdrafts, or pay their rates."
"The community has rallied, and provided breakfasts and lunches for some of their mokopuna, but this does not relieve the feeling of shame and embarrassment felt by the older workers in Wairoa.
"I know this situation is the same all across New Zealand where there are Affco Talley's plants.
"It is especially severe in Wairoa and Moerewa and other towns where there are very few other job opportunities.
"The lockouts have seriously affected not just the hundreds of workers, but all of their families, and the local and tribal communities they belong to."
"In Wairoa, Kaitoko Whanau from Te Puni Kokiri have been guiding families who have never before had to seek a mortgage holiday, rates relief or a bank overdraft.
"They have had some success in helping whanau secure the government assistance they are entitled to.
"I have also written to iwi leaders right throughout Aotearoa, asking them to consider how they might best support their communities under stress, in accordance with Maori values of collective action to look after each other and protect vulnerable whanau. Some have responded, saying they are discussing plans to withhold stock from their farms, to show their displeasure with Affco Talley's.
"I have also been trying hard to meet with representatives of the Talley family, to see if we can find a way forward through this dispute, in the interests of the parties and of rural communities who are caught up in this dispute."
The union and Talley's Affco were due to resume mediation for a collective agreement today.
The legality of the lockout is being challenged by the union in the Employment Court.
Affco operations manager Rowan Ogg said the company opted for the lockout "to make the union take the company's claims seriously".
"They are at least discussing the company's claims now," he said.