Chch checkers seek union

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33815, 11 April 1975, Page 14

Chch checkers seek union

Checkers at General Foods! I Corporation. New Zealand, Ltd,|( in Christchurch are having difti-is Iculty in finding a union that 11 ; suits their type of work. (i At a hearing of a demarcationj ( dispute between the Canterbury 1 i Storemen and Packers’ Union i 1 land the Ice-Cream Workers’! I | s

(Union, in the Industrial Court, Christchurch, Judge R. D Jamie-! Ison, said that it appeared thatll • no-one wanted checkers in their; I union. : Judge Jamieson reserved his| decision on which union should ‘ cover checkers ‘ Mr T. J. Colleton, who repre- ■ seated the Ice-Cream Workers’ : Union called four witnesses. Donald Mcßride, a checker at General Foods in Blenheim Road, j said that when he first joined he I became a member of the! j Clerical Workers’ Union.; ‘Recently six checkers were in- 1 I formed that that union “no j ‘ longer wanted them in the ; I union.” | “We received notification from : the firm that we had to belong (to a union, so we joined the | Ice-cream Workers’ Union.” The checkers work involves | checking frozen foods from the . (freezer into trucks and to check lincomng goods. They do not!, ! handle the stock. Mr H. J. Ives, manager ofj I General Foods, said that the I checkers counted ice-cream and; (allied products, which included! (such tilings as chickens, meat; ’ pies, and butchers’ small goods, j ! Mr C. tV. Keenan, secretary ofii jthe Canterbury Storemen and; I Packers’ Union, said that his; j union had tried to get the : checkers to join them. I Mr T. G. A. Kyley. the New, (Zealand personnel manager for (General Foods, said that in other centres checkers were referred Ito as checker-loaders In Auckland and Wellington they I belonged to the Ice-cream I Workers’ Union, and in Dunedin (they were covered by the Ice(eream Workers’ Award, but were I not a member of any union at I present. ( He said that they would join | a union in Dunedin as soon as one which was suitable could be found. I Mr Keenan said that the (Dunedin workers had joined the ‘Storeman and Packers’ Union, ‘and that Wellington checkers (were also with his union. Snooker.—David Greaves <Englland’i has taken an eight frames :to six lead over Jim Charlton (Australia) in the preliminary | round of the world professional I I snooker championships in