Phosphate Works Dispute Deadlock
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, January 25. The dispute at the Southland Co-opera-tive Phosphate Company’s works at Awarua has deadlocked.
The company is waiting on the men to return to work before it will negotiate and the union is waiting for the company to take the first steps towards negotiations. The company has approached the Department of Labour and informed it of the dispute, but according to the district officer, Mr M. J.
Michael, the department is doing nothing.
It was up to the parties concerned to come together, he said, but the department was watching the situation closely. At a stopwork meeting at Awarua on Tuesday, the men decided they had been “locked out,” and declared a “black” ban on all goods entering and leaving the works. All the men are concerned with the manufacture and disposal of the company’s products.
The meeting was called to discuss the dismissal of the president of the Awarua branch of the Freezing Workers’ and Related Trades Industrial Association of Workers (Otago-Southland District), Mr J. Martin, who had refused to operate a new dispatcher for which the union wanted a new rate.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31279, 27 January 1967, Page 12
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