Lada car import opposed
PA Wellington Coachworkers are opposed to the Government’s decision to allow the importation of built-up Lada cars into New Zealand. The secretary of the Coachworkers’ Union (Mr G. Clarke) said that if the Govj emment had a sense of responsibility towards motorcar assembly workers it would reverse the decision. He termed the decision "a folly which will adversely affect our members’ employment.”
The severe cut-back in production of the Subaru car at Waitara gave an indication of the state of the in-
I due try and showed “dangerously short-sighted thinking, in the present economic crisis, by the Government.” “Our members fully realise that one of the persistent problems in this industry is the multiplicity of models," said Mr Clarke. introduce another into a market that has been deteriorating since 1973?”
The recent annual conference of the union unanimously opposed the introduction of Lada cars into New Zealand as being a threat to their present employment, and contrary to the union’s policy of calling for economic self-reliance in industrial development.
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