N.Z. METAL AWARD
Union Alleges Wage Freeze
Union assessors had no option but to request an adjournment last week of a conciliation hearing for the New Zealand metal trades award, said the secretary of the Canterbury Engineers’ Union (Mr L. Fortune).
“The employers made no offer whatsoever,” said Mr Fortune.
“It destroys the whole spirit of conciliation. This bears out the view that the employers’ organisations have imposed a wage-freeze.” Union officials feared that employers’ assessors were attending conciliation under strict mandate, and not as assessors as was intended by the Act, said Mr Fortune. Mr Fortune said that the union had abandoned its sheet metal conciliation hearing, which was to have been heard in Wellington next week. “We felt that there was no point in going to it in view of the treatment received last week,” he said.
Mr Fortune said that November 29 and 30 had been set down for further conciliation on the New Zealand metal trades award.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31479, 20 September 1967, Page 13
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