Union plan defuses sheep-export row
NZPA Adelaide The Australian meat worker’s union yesterday decided to lift all bans on the export of live sheep, but a four-day national stoppage of abattoirs will go ahead.
The Federal executive of the Meat Industry Employees’ Union announced this after a meeting of less than an hour in Adelaide.
The executive spokesman said members accepted the peace plan worked out by the Australian Council of Trade Unions leader, Mr Bob
Hawke, and union leaders to settle the sheep-export row. This means .that exports of more than 150,000 sheep delayed for more than three weeks by the dispute can go ahead, opening the way for farmers, exporters, and the union to resolve their differences by negotiation. However, the spokesman said that the four-day stoppage at the nation’s abattoirs from midnight last night would proceed in protest at the use of “scab” labour to load sheep at Albany in Western Australia earlier this week.
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