Court post for union secretary
PA Wellington The Federation of Labour executive has nominated the Engineers’ Union secretary, Mr Ernie Ball, for the $41,000-a-year position of workers’ representative on the Arbitration Court.
The Federation’s president, Mr W. J. Knox, said that Mr Ball, secretary of New Zealand’s biggest union, would succeed Mr Jim Boomer on the court, pending formal appointment to the position by the Governor-General, Sir David Beattie.
Now in the final year of his second two-year term as a F.O.L. executive member, Mr Ball became national secretary of the Engineers’ Union in 1980. He also succeeded Mr Boomer in that position.
? Mr Ball, considered a moderate, said that after 27 years in the trade union movement he considered the time was right for a change.
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