Sewer row meeting
About 100 labourers and drivers employed by the Christchurch Drainage Board will hold a stop-work meeting today to discuss the dispute between the board and about 25 staff of the flushing section at Hazeldean Road over hours of work. The flushers, part of whose job is to flush water down sewers to clear obstructions, have been taking industrial action this week in support of a claim for changed hours of work. Their award pro-
I vides for changes in hours to > be made provided consent is I given, but the board has declined consent. ; The board's chief engineer, I Mr H. P. Hunt, has said that : the change would detract i from the service given to the public, hinder co-ordination ; with other staff, and pose i safety problems because the , changed hours would coin--1 cide with more traffic on the t roads near manholes used by > the flushers when clearing - the sewers.
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Press, 11 February 1983, Page 7
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