Airport service ban imposed
Industrial reporter
Telecommunication technicians at Christchurch Airport have imposed a ban on servicing part of the airport's instrument landing system.
The ban, imposed on August 19, is on back-up servicing of the glide path section of the Philips instrument landing system. The glide path equipment tells a pilot how high above the runway his aircraft is flying as it approaches to land or rises after take off.
The regional director of airways operations in the Civil Aviation Division of the Ministry of Transport, Mr F. A. Cox, said that the equipment was still working normally and there was no danger to the travelling public. If the glide path equipment malfunctioned and the
technicians refused to service it in accordance with the ban, other equipment could be used.
However, he agreed that if the weather was bad the substitute equipment might not be able to be used, and that it was possible that aircraft, could be delayed or diverted in such instances.
The Ministry expected the dispute to be settled soon, said Mr Cox.
The technicians are employed by the Civil Aviation division and are members of the Public Service Association. which has been overseeing the dispute.
A spokesman for the P.S.A. from Wellington has said that the ban was imposed because the State Services Commission had refused to respond to proposals for the
updating of a 1977 agreement on rating allowances. The allowances are paid after qualifications are obtained enabling the technicians to work on various pieces of sophisticated equipment.
The spokesman said that when the agreement was signed in 1977 it was expected to be renewed the next year but the S.S.C. had not done so, and the P.S.A. had been pressing for a renewal ever since. Firm proposals were put to the S.S.C. 18 months ago, but it had not responded and had been “ducking behind the wage freeze" since the imposition of those regulations.
The P.S.A. spokesman said that the dispute was a national one, but that so far only Christchurch technicians had taken industrial action The technicians argued that
changes in the last few years'.; had increased the level of responsibility, and that the allowances should be increased to take this into £ acount. A
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