Power workers attacked
PA Wellington The Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) has attacked as provocative and misguided plans by electricity workers to take industrial action in protest against house-rent increases.
“Any industrial action to reduce the normal generation and supply of electricity is totally unacceptable to the Government,” he said yesterday. Electricity workers have decided to switch off half of New Zealand’s power generators for two hours from 9.30 a.m. on the mornings of May 22 and 23 during stop-work meetings.
For 48 hours from midnight on May 21 all substation staff and linemen will also ban overtime and call-outs. The action was announced by the president of the Public Service Association (Mr D. Thorp) yesterday (Report, Page 2).
It followed a Government decision to increase electricity workers’ house rents while it and the P.S.A. were still negotiating with the State Services Commission over house rents and a new house-purchase scheme.
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