Hearing on freezer temperatures
The committee of inquiry into freezer temperatures at freezing works began its Christchurch hearings yesterday. The committee, appointed in November last year, comprises Messrs M. J. Michael (chairman), W. Simmonds (Meat Workers’ Union) and R. Reid (Freezing Companies’ Association). It is inquiring into temperatures in freezers and cold stores at freezing works. It will hold its final hearing in Wellington on October 5. It will then prepare recommendations for the Minister of Labour (Mr Bolger).
The committee was set up after the companies and the union failed to agree on a companies’ demand that they be granted the right to lower freezing chamber temperatures to a temperature of minus 18 deg to satisfy the requirements of some European importing countries.’ The present minimum acceptable standard is minus 12 deg. After the issue was referred to the committee, the parties proceeded with their conciliation talks and settled a new national award without further industrial stoppages.
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