Dispute may ‘thaw’
PA Wellington Millions of dollars worth of export meat may start to thaw out in freezing works throughout New Zealand on May 10 because of an industrial dispute.
Salaried shift engineers have threatened to strike from midnight on May 9, after the breakdown of their pay talks. Meat for the domestic market will be largely unaffected by the strike, because a few freezing works kill for the local market.
The engineers freeze meat in storage at the works. The employers made a new pay offer on Monday, but the secretary of the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (Mr D. J. Munro) said that the offer had been completely unsatistfactory. If chief or second engineers at freezing works (who are members of the institute, but not covered by the Shift Engineers’ Award) tried to run the freezing rooms themselves, they would be banned from the institute, he said. The union had been guaranteed co-operation from the Meat Workers’ Union, which would also take industrial action if nonunion staff intervened.
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Press, 4 May 1978, Page 27
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