Workers not allowed to work
PA Wellington A dispute which threatens to halt all car assembly at General Motors’ Trentnam plant continued when the company refused to start up the bodyshop production line yesterday. The dispute is over the appointment of an inspector to fill a vacancy in the bodyshop. The Coachworkers’ Union is insisting that the job should go to a former job delegate, Mr Mike Sinai, who was demoted from an inspector’s position last year. The union secretary, Mr
Graeme Clarke, said that all the plant’s 350 coachworkers met in the cafeteria yesterday morning and resolved that Mr Sinai should do the work. When the workers went to their posts on the assembly line the company refused to start it up, he said. About 11 a.m. the paint shop was shut and its workers suspended. A company spokesman, Mr Robin Curtis, said that the company was not planning to call in a mediator as it was its policy that people should work normally before a mediator was involved.
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Press, 14 August 1984, Page 8
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