No end in sight in Anst. row
NZPA Melbourrt Austria’s tel« communicatic services wit continue to del pite a series of high-levd conferences i Melbourrt yesterday.
Arbitration Commissiol talks on the over i 20 per cent payjaim brokl up last evening with nt clear end in sight. The conference,before at Arbitration Connissionel Eric Clarkson, higbghted i day of negotiation whicl saw the involvement rt Telecom Australia toj managers and the fu' execu tive of the Australin Tela communications EmioyeeS Association.
Officials from both »artie< said they had agreed t> meet privately this mornin; be fore a further confrencj ordered by CommisSonet Clarkson for about 11 am.
The developments cane at industrial bans by th< A.T.E.A’s 26,000 memben it support of the claim <or» tinued to disrupt file communications, particula-11 overseas. Because of a fajll no telephone calls were gi ting through to Papua Nttf Guinea, and only half tn normal number were reack ing South-East Asia.
j Meanwhile, the New Soutj Vales general manager d Australia Post (Mr Miltof Sevens) has said that masi sispensions of postal work en will begin today as long ruining bans continue agAnst the introduction of t new regional mail network scheme. He said that thert was already a build-up is the Srstem of as many as It millioi articles.
An Australia-wide paj strike today by 400,00(1 metal workers is the latest developnent in the country’! current industrial disputes. Comnenting on the cur' rent industrial unrest, tht Prime Mnister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) las said that the Federal Government will bring in egislation to give the president of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission power to inter* vene in national strikes.
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