Meat dispute

Press, 9 June 1978, Page 4

Meat dispute

From Page 2 The assistant secretary of, the Auckland Freezing; Workers’ Union (Mr J. R.j Evans) said after the Court, rose yesterday afternoon that the parties were back; ‘exactly where the Minister! had us a fortnight ago and; bad we gone through with it! both parties would have! been better off by a fort-' night.” Mr P. D. Blomfield. execu-, five director of the Freezing, Companies* Association, said' he was pleased that through' the discussion the employers! had been able to get the commitment of the unions to lift their bans. Exports of! tneat worth more than S3GM which had been delayed rould now start to move. Mr A. J. Kennedy, secre-, tary of the New Zealand Meat Workers’ Union, said that in the total context it

(was a reasonable approach, lit was fair to say that both! I • sides had conceded some-; >1 thing. Asked about the position! Gof Southland freezing; 1 , workers who had voted to ■ maintain load-out bans, Mr I Kennedy said that they ' would meet again as soon as possible, either today or ' Monday. “I am confident that in the light of the agreement reached here there will be no Croblem in lifting the bans, ut I realise they will not 1 be very happy about it,” he ' said. At a mass meeting in In- ' vercargill last Friday the; workers voted five to one in; favour of a motion to en-i 'force the export 'oad-out! ban until all section 10 (in-' centive contract workers) ; were paid the full 8.5 per! I cent cost-of-living order! back-pay.