Freezing Workers And Seamen
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, July 9. Seamen and freezing workers eould Join the brewery workers in a national strike. They called on their employers today to' begin negotiations on union wage claims. The New Zealand Seamen’s Union will probably take direct action if shipowners do not begin proceedings by Monday to hear a union demand for a 10 per cent pay rise. Announcing this in a telephone Interview from Wellington, the national president of the union (Mr
W. Martin) Mid the shipowners had been stalling for time. Members of the union would hold stop-work meetings throughout the country on Thursday to endorse their national executive’s recommendation to issue the ultimatum. The secretary of the North Island Freezing Workers’ Federation (Mr T. F. Collerton) said freezing workers throughout New Zealand were certain to take direct action if their 7.6 per cent wage claim was refused at talks with employers In Wellington.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31727, 10 July 1968, Page 1
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