Drivers’ Stop-work Meeting Today
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 5. Deliveries of many goods in Auckland will be interrupted tomorrow morning while 2000 members of the Northern Drivers’ Union attend a stop-work meeting in the Town Hall.
The meeting has been called by the union to consider its next moves in a dispute with Bitumix, Ltd., and 38 other contractors and master carriers. The dispute involves the rejection by Bitumix of a union claim for a wage increase of Is an hour on ruling rates, and the subsequent refusal of more than 500 men to work normal overtime for Bitumix. The men are on one week's notice of dismissal. The secretary of the union (Mr G. H. Anderson) said a meeting of 10 trade unions today gave full support to the Drivers’ Union in its efforts to obtain an adequate ruling wage rate. A representative of the
Auckland branch of the Associated Contractors’ Federation said all 85 contracting companies which were members of the branch had agreed to support Bitumix in the dispute.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 18
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