DRIVERS’ DISPUTE
Decision In Favour Of Company (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 17. Mr A. Coleman, a retired magistrate. had decided the Barton Ginger industrial, dispute over the dismissal of a job delegate driver in favour of the company, said the Secretary of Labour (Mr H. L. Bockett) today. “I have given careful consideration to the whole of the evidence adduced before the committee, and have no hesitation in deciding that the employers, Barton Ginger and Company, were justified in dismissing the driver from their service,” said Mr Coleman in his decision. .
The dispute was heard by a disputes committee consisting of three members for the industry and three for the Wellington Drivers’ Union, with Mr Coleman as chairman. As the committee was unable to agree on the point at issue—whether the dismissal of the driver was justified—the decision was left to Mr Coleman. After the dismissal of the delegate driver early this month 20 of the firm’s drivers came out on strike, alleging wrongful dismissal. Both parties subsequently agreed to the setting up of the disputes committee, with the chairman’s decision to be final in the event of no agreement.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28463, 18 December 1957, Page 13
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