P.S.A. has ‘no hopes’ on dispute
The Public Service Association has no hopes of being able to settle the electricity workers’ housing dispute with the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon), according to its president (Mr D. H. Thorp) last evening. “All the negotiations with Mr Muldoon have failed,” Mr Thorp told NZPA in an interview. “He is bent on confrontation, and we have virtually run out of all the conciliatory moves we can make; the Government has rejected every one. “We can only hope that we can now revert to using conventional industrial machinery to deal with the dispute,” said Mr Thorp.
The P.S.A.’s executive would discuss the dispute at its regular bi-monthly meeting tomorrow evening. Plans for the next industrial action, on Thursday, July 12, would be made later in the week. Mr Thorp said the power cuts would be no greater than last time, when stoppages by electricity workers halved generating capacity.
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