Confrontation of port unions
Lyttelton waterfront workers "will resist having part of their membership taken over by the Harbour Board Employees’ Union. At a special stop-work meeting called at 7 a.m. yesterday to discuss the demarcation dispute at Lyttelton’s container terminal, unanimous support was given to their union’s complete opposition to the take-over bid.
The meeting followed a claim made by the Harbour Board Employees’ Union at a stop-work meeting last Thursday that all workers regularly employed at the container
I terminal should belong to their union, including tally | clerks who are in the Waterfront Workers’ Union, and foremen and stevedores who have a union of their own. The watersiders also gave full support to the Foremen and Stevedores Union in its fight to retain work to which it has been traditionally entitled. It is believed that executive officers of the Lyttelton I Harbour Board will discuss the matter with the Harbour ‘Board Employees’ Union today.
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