About 30 staff from the Whangārei branch of Inland Revenue Department joined their counterparts nationwide in taking industrial action for the second time.
Around 4000 Inland Revenue (IRD) and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) workers belonging to the Public Service Association (PSA) stopped work for two hours yesterday after talks over fairer pay broke down.
The first action on July 9 was the first IRD strike in 22 years.
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The 30 IRD workers at yesterday's stoppage and street march represented just over half the staff employed in Whangārei, where all are PSA members.