Dave Feickert

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Dave Feickert

Dave Feickert (13 December 1946 – 2 July 2014) was an international mines safety advisor. In his hometown Whanganui he was a director and chairperson of the Whanganui River Institute.[1] In 2009 he was awarded a China Friendship Prize for Foreign Experts .[2][3]

Feickert attended secondary school at Wanganui Technical College (now Wanganui City College).

As a Quaker he embodied the core values of the Quaker Movement. He applied them in his work in the labour movement.[4]

1983 – 2003

Industrial Relations officer and Head of Research with the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain) and later, European officer of the Trades Union Congress in Brussels.

China

Pike River Mine, New Zealand

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