Cost of stoppages $4.1M
PA Wellington Industrial disruptions last year cost the country 214,000 man-days of production, according to the annual report of the Labour Department, tabled in Parliament yesterday. The report lists the meatfreezing industry, shipping servicing industries, and the trading banks as the main contributors to the high figures. Bank employees had one stoppage, costing 15,221 man-days, freezing workers had 65, for the loss of 99,320, and there were 79 stoppages in shipping service industries, costing 20,222 man-days. Industrial disturbance decreased on the waterfront, in electric power construction. and in vehicle assembly. The loss of 214.000 mandays was 31,000 greater than the 1974 figure. On average weekly earnings of 597, the strikes represented more than S4.IM in lost wages.
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