Freedom measure studied
PA Wellington j’ The Government will I, »tudy a Federation of Labour suggestion that New , tealand ratify an Inter-] national Labour Organisation , convention on freedom of], Association. The Prime Minister (Mr , Muldoon) said that the sug- ( gestion, if agreed to bv the' ( jovmment, would mean in] ( principle that "a good deal of trade-union law” would bei replaced. Anyone would be free to; establish a union and a person would be given the free- i iom to join a union or not. ! Most Western countries/’ Including Australia, had rutified the 1.L.0. con- t vention. Some south and : rentral American nations i Lad not. The F.O.L.s suggestion repaired close study. In the, meantime, the Government’s] f oposals for ballots on voluntary unionism would proceed. v
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