Dispute will delay flights
PA Auckland All international flights in and out of New Zealand will be disrupted soon by a work-to-rule and overtime ban by engineers at Auckland airport. The decision — which took effect yesterday — was made by 600 engineers working for Air New Zealand. But they also service all international carriers in and out of Auckland — British Airways. Pan American, Qantas, Air Pacific, U.T.A., and Singapore Airlines. No Air New Zealand engineers were based in Christchurch. said the secretary of the Canterbury branch of the Engineers’ Union (Mr R. J. Todd). However, the 450 engineers working in the N.A.C. workshops at Harewood were members of the same union and under the same award.
Mr Todd refused to speculate last evening whether the ban would spread to Christchurch, because he did not possess full information on the ban.
The union had just been to conciliation and the agreement was settled, he said. But the Auckland engineers did not seem happy with the settlement. “Their complaint seems to be with the union and not with the employer.’’
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