Strikers vote to work
PA Wellington Striking Todd coach workers have voted to return to work from today but their claim for a 75c an hour wage increase has not been shelved.
The decision, made at a meeting in Porirua yesterday afternoon, ends an eight-day strike and defuses an employer threat that the union said could have meant an industry-wide lock-out.
The union’s claim would be picked up again late next month when coach workers and other industry unions will meet at Wellington plants, said the union’s secretary, Mr Graeme Clarke. Todds had refused a union request for a joint approach for a wage-freeze exemption and had said that further action would be taken unless there was a return to work.
Union delegates at Ford had been told this would mean an industry-wide lockout, Mr Clarke said. The union considers increased productivity plus the fact that most members take home less than $2OO a week provides a basis for discussions with Todds
about a wage-freeze exemption.
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