BREWERY STRIKE
Auckland talks fail fN.Z. Prett Association) AUCKLAND, August 6. The prospect of an ideflnite beer drought faces Auckland after the collapse Of .today’s talks with the Federation qf Labour. widely-held hopes that the talks would And « solution to the deadlocked brewery disi pute were shattered when, i after only <0 minutes of nei gotietions, the two parties . split up. The F.O.L. president | (Mr T. E. Skinner) announced: “There is no settlei ment.” I The Minister of Labour : (Mr Marshall) said tonight there was still no intention of the Government to intervene in the dispute. Brewery workers. Who have been out of work for three weeks, will be officially told of the failure of negotiations when they meet to discuss future action on Tuesday morning. Mr Skinner said that during the talks the company representatives had increased their offer of pay increases from 9.5 per cent to 10.5 per i cent. However, this was not I accepted. The union demand , is for 18.8 per cent.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32679, 7 August 1971, Page 1
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