Bus union to decide action
The Christchurch Tramway Employees’ Union executive will' decide today what industrial action might be taken over the Christchurch Transport Board’s refusal to pay workers for time spent bej’ond two hours at their half-yearly stop-work meeting earlier this month. Mr Malcolm Blackburn, the union’s branch president, said yesterday that the April 11 meeting had lasted about 35 minutes longer than the two-hour limit
agreed upon a few years ago. Two previous meetings had gone beyond two hours, but workers had been paid for the extra time in spite of the agreement, he said. After the Transport Board's operations committee had recommended nonpayment earlier this month, the union had given the board 14 days notice that some form of industrial action might be taken. Any disruption of bus services would come early next month.
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