WATERSIDE AWARD
Negotiation Begins (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 25. Negotiations for a new principal order for waterfront work in New Zealand began in Wellington today. Some of the recommendations of the Waterfront Streamlining Committee will be issues during the negotiations, expected to last three weeks. The national executive of the Federation of Labour met waterside workers' representatives yesterday and decided to approach the Government on another major contention between employers and workers. The present Waterfront Industry Act, 1953, empowers the Waterfront Industry Tribunal to deal with any type of waterfront work normally performed by waterside workers in 1953.
The president Of the F.O.L. (Mr T. E. Skinner) said today the Government would be asked to amend the act to ensure waterside workers would continue to do work the character of which was changed by automation and mechanisation.
The Government would also be asked to overhaul the conciliation procedure on the waterfront to eliminate overlapping and interference of the individual powers of the waterfront industry tribunal and the port conciliation committees.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30529, 26 August 1964, Page 3
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