Methanol workers strike
PA New Plymouth Workers on the two methanol storage tanks at Port Taranaki have gone on strike indefinitely over relativity payments with Waitara Valley methanol plant site workers. They are employed by the construction company. , PDMPerry. which also has a
contract to build six tanks at the methanol plant site. The striking workers include riggers, welders, trades assistants, labourers, carpenters. and steel-tiers. Employees of the same company at the Waitara Valley site have also gone on strike. The workers at the port want the $2 site allowance
paid at the methanol plant site because they contend that the port and plant storage system is part of the one, project. They had been told that their application, for parity had been declined because of the wage freeze, a spokesman said yesterday. They decided to strike immediately.
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Press, 19 February 1983, Page 6
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