Works to continue

Press, 7 June 1983, Page 9

Works to continue

Work at four Canterbury freezing works will continue as normal today in spite of a call by the New Zealand

Meat Workers’ Union management committee for a 24-hour strike starting at midnight in support of the Federation of Labour’s campaign for a $2O-a-week wage rise.

A decision to strike was made by the union’s management committee which met in Christchurch on May 26 and 27.

Freezing workers at the Pareora, Belfast, and Canterbury works of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Com-

pany, and the N.C.F. Kaiapoi works voted, in a secret ballot, to defy the strike directive. Workers at the Canterbury works voted to strike last Friday rather than today. No ballot was held at the Fairton works, near Ashburton, because the season has already finished. Meat workers in the north of the North Island went on their 24-hour strike last week. Some of the men have already left other works as chains have wound down with the approach of the end of the killing season.