FIRM DROPS WORK
Pay Increase Rejected (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 17. As a result of the dispute with the Wellington Shipwrights' Union, a stevedoring company, S. Wood and Son. Ltd., with 100 years’ service in Wellington, will now not prepare holds in ships. It will restrict its activities to ship repair work, boat building and allied trades.
The company could not pay the new rates agreed to by the union and Port Employers’ Association for 50 hours a week, when much of that time was idle time, earning nothing for the company and not chargeable to customers, the chairman of directors (Mr J. D. Pottinger) said today. The new agreement was made without reference to the firm, he said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30780, 18 June 1965, Page 14
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