Railway Staff Talk Of Strike Action
(New Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, August 9.
The Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants has not discounted the possibility of strike action if pay margin negotiatons fail.
The society’s national council will resume negotiations with the Minister of Railways (Mr Gordon) on Tuesday. “It is my hope that through conciliation and arbitration, reason will prevail,” said the president of the society (Mr R. J. Doherty) today.
“But we cannot discount the possibility of strike action if all else fails.” An hour-long meeting with Mr Gordon today had ended inconclusively, Mr Doherty said.
At issue are increased margins for those railway workers—about 70 categories in all—who are neither as unskilled as labourers nor sufficiently skilled to qualify for tradesmen’s rates.
Mr Doherty said that since 1939, margins for these workers had been reduced from 7.54 per cent to 1.943 per cent.
“We want a return to the 1939 position,” he said.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31754, 10 August 1968, Page 40
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