Auckland rubbish on move

Press, 10 July 1979, Page 2

Auckland rubbish on move

PA Auckland Auckland city’s rubbish collection resumed yesterday, four weeks to the day after disruptions began because of an industrial dispute.

Rubbish piled up in the streets during the dispute, and the Auckland City Council obtained a court injunction ordering drivers and collectors to resume work.

The Northern Drivers’ Union and Bin Services,-Ltd, yesterday signed an agreement ending the dispute. The company has agreed to the lifters on its trucks becoming union members and also to provide copies of its owner-driver contracts to prove their validity. For its part the union has agreed to stop picketing the council’s composting plant and Pikes Point tip. The parties met before an industrial conciliator, Mr F. Gerbic.

I The trouble began on June |ll, the first day the Auckland City Council’s private I contractor, Bin Services, (began residential collections, j Three drivers at the council’s Mount Wellington com|posting plant refused to remove reject material, forcing | the Bin Services’ trucks to !go to the regional author i ity’s tip at Pikes Point. Bull- | dozer drivers at the tip refused to cover council rubbish, and on June 21 the Auckland Regional Authority closed the tip.