Manning dispute resolved
PA Auckland The Cooks and Stewards’ Union has backed down in a dispute with a Norwegian shipping company because of a threat that fellow seamen could lose their jobs. The dispute centred round the manning of a new BluffJapan aluminium trade ship Toki Arrow owned by the Norwegian company, Gearbulk, Ltd. Ten New Zealand seamen as well as officers already have jobs on the ship and four more jobs were offered to union members. However, the union sought five more jobs. Gearbulk was not prepared to agree to an extra
employee and told the union if an agreement was not reached it would send home from Japan the New Zealand seamen aboard the ship. The national secretary of the union, Mr Dave Graham, said it was with reluctance the union accepted the employment of four, instead of five, of its members. "We can’t allow our brothers (New Zealand seamen aboard the Toki Arrow) to be send back (to New Zealand),” he said. Mr Graham said that there were already 65 unemployed seamen on a roster in Auckland waiting for jobs.
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