Journalist pay talks to resume in August

Press, 5 July 1978, Page 2

Journalist pay talks to resume in August

PA Wellington Conciliation talks between the New Zealand Journalists’ Union and the Newspaper Publishers’ Association will resume on August 2. Both sides said yesterday that they would make every effort to reacn agreement on the Journalists’ wage claim. If tne Issue is not resolved. the union wifi refer the matter to arottration, according to a Joint statement issued by tne parties last evening. The statement gave details or tne agreement under whicu the journalists ended

lon Monday afternoon their 84-hour strike. It said Journalists’ wage 1 rates payable at April 25, 1972, would be the base for wage movements for tne relativity established then by Sir Arnold Nordmeyer as an Independent assessor. Examination of indices and otner measurement bases would start by establishing the relativity existing In 1972 Neither side would make any comment, or elaborate on the statement. The N.P.A. will withdraw from the Arbitration Court

its application dated June 15, 1978, allowing the Conciliation Council to proceed on the unchanged application of the union’s filing, also dated June 15. For the N.P.A., the statement wa? signed by Messrs J. K. Stinson, chairman of the industrial committee; M. J. Thompson, executive elector, and T. R. Weir, executive officer. For the Journalists’ Union, it was signed by Messrs B. G. Joyce, national president; M. Steele, senior vice-presi-dent; and M. P. Conway, national secretary.