Beer tanks emptying

Press, 8 December 1976, Page 1

Beer tanks emptying

The spell of hot weather in Christchurch has heightened the effect of a

ban on beer deliveries by New Zealand Breweries tanker drivers. If the hot weather continues, things may become critical about the weekend. Most hotels and taverns that stock the company’s beer will have sufficient supplies at least until Saturday. The beer tanker drivers will meet this morning, after two days of restrictions on deliveries. The 30 drivers stopped delivering to licensed premises in the inner city, except working men’s clubs, on Monday in protest against the company's refusal to pay them for two and a half days wages lost when they were suspended during a strike by brewery workers in September. The field officer for the

Canterbury Drivers Union (Mr Lou Bums) said last evening that the union still had not heard of any decision by the industrial mediator (Mr W. Grills) after a meeting last Fridai

The Press Association reports, however, that Mr Grills is ill. He was supposed also to have mediated in a dispute at the Bluff aluminium smelter yesterday. be tween the company and members of the Engineer ing Union. A new date will be fixed for this. In Auckland. Dominion Breweries drivers relumed to work yesterday after a one-day stoppage in support of their claim to be, paid fur time when they were suspended during earlier industrial trouble The claim will now be submitted to an industrial mediator for a ruling.