Strike at Firestone
The afternoon .shift oi about 100 rubber workers at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company factory in Papanui went on strike yesterday in protest against the dismissal of a rubber worker. The afternoon shift runs from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., but the workers went on strike after holding a stop-wctk meeting at 5.15 p.m. Workers on other shifts will meet this morning to decide what action to take.
The . company’s works manager, Mr A. W. Mellema, said that the Canterbury Rubber Workers’ Union had agreed to take up the dismissed workers’ case through the normal disputes committee procedures, blit the afternoon shift had later gone on strike. He said that the man had been dismissed after several warnings for unsatisfactory work. He had been employed about eight years.
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Press, 29 May 1981, Page 6
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