ENGINEERS ON TUGS
‘Tantamount To Strike”
The ban on overtime by tug and dredge engineers was “tantamount to a full-time strike,” the chairman (Mr L. G. Amos) said at the Lyttelton Harbour Board meeting yesterday. It meant that tugs, which could not be operated except on a 24-hour basis, would be immobilised, he said. “We have tried strenuously in every possible way to have a settlement of the dispute." he said, “and the engineers’ action now is a great disappointment, particularly at this time of the year when we are going to be busy.” Mr Amos said that some of the tug engineers earned more than £2OOO a year, “which in anyone's hand is not a bad amount of money.” The secretary-manager (Mr J. A. Sowden) said negotiations had been going on in Wellington for some time. It was a national matter that would be dealt with on a national basis.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31207, 3 November 1966, Page 18
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