Refinery men at work
PA Whangarei Most of the 2300 workers at the Marsden Point oil refinery expansion site returned to work yesterday after last Thursday’s explosion at the adjacent refinery, but painters and riggers stayed out. The call to resume work yesterday was considered Kunions individually. A 2 consortium spokesman at the expansion site said
that 100 painters and 167 riggers decided not to return until today. The riggers were protesting against what they saw as a lack of urgency over safety measures. The 200 boilermakers on the expansion site returned to work but the JV2 spokesman said they were refusing to go on to the refinery site in areas which the New Zealand Refinery Company had declared safe.
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Press, 6 September 1983, Page 6
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