Dispute at Richmond club settled

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33981, 23 October 1975, Page 1

Dispute at Richmond club settled

w Barmen who were involved in the dispute between the Richmond Working Men’s Club and the Hotel Workers’ Union will return to work today, and beer supplies to the club will be resumed.

An agreement signed yesterday by the club’s president (Mr M. C. Hart) and the secretary of the union (Mr C. C. McCready) said that the dispute had been settled.

' “All staff involved ini [the stoppage will return to work on the basis of the same payments, conditions, and duties which applied immediately before the dispute,” the agreement said. The disputes committee of the Canterbury Trades Council met yesterday, at the request of the Hotel Workers’ Union, to consider the dispute. The council decided that in order to resolve the

dispute, the club be advised to re-engage the barmen concerned with no loss of status or service. The secretary of the Trades Council (Mr F. E. McNulty) said that the club and the union were recommended to restart negotiations on the status quo. “We conveyed this to Mr Hart, and he agreed with the recommendation,” Mr McNulty said. A ban on deliveries of beer to the club, imposed by the Brewery Workers’ Union, would be lifted, and breweries in Greymouth and Christchurch which supplied the club would be informed of the decision, said the union’s secretary (Mr G. G. Walker). A stop-work meeting to discuss the dispute, planned by staff of all working men’s clubs in Christchurch, would not now be held, said Mr McCready. The meeting had been planned for tomorrow. The dispute was about proposals by the club to change the duties of the bar-

men which would have resulted in the loss of an allowance. The men walked off the job last Friday evening without informing the club’s executive, and were immediately dismissed. The Brewery Workers’ Union supported the barmen by banning all deliveries of beer to the club until they were reinstated.