NO CRANE DRIVERS
Watersiders Stop Early (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Mar. 31. Work stopped an hour and a half early on several ships loading and unloading at Auckland today. There were not enough Harbour Board employees available after 5 p.m. to drive cranes and keep all the sheds open.
The harbour board employees’ award still provides for an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. working day until the terms of their new award, now under negotiation, are settled.
Many of them elected to finish at 5 p.m. and not work the hour and a half of overtime which would have adjusted their finishing time with that of watersiders and other port workers. Watersiders were told they could leave the job when the Harbour Board men finished work at 5 p.m., and that they would be paid for the hour and a half as if they had worked until 6.30 p.m.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30714, 1 April 1965, Page 3
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154NO CRANE DRIVERS Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30714, 1 April 1965, Page 3
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