KILLING DISPUTE
No stock offered (N.Z, Press Association) OAMARU, Nov. 3. No stock was offered by the management of the Waitaki Farmers’ Freezing Company’s Pukeuri works today, with the result that a full chain of men was without work, plus men in ancillary departments. A total of 150 men were involved.
The dispute is over pay rates for a man on the chain to remove (enuculate) kidney.
According to the company’s general manager (Mr F. B. McKenzie) a national agreement was reached between representatives of the Freezing Workers’ Union and freezing works employers, but the local union did not accept this. Mr McMenzie said that for the last few days the chain speed had been reduced to a lower rate by the union, and the management now took the view that there would not be a resumption of killing until the union agreed to abide by the national agreement.
“It is up to the union now to decide,” Mr McKenzie said.
Chain slaughtermen imposed a go-slow at the works on Monday in protest at the introduction of a ban on labourers’ hourly pay rates for skinning kidneys.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 22
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