Injunction sought on strikers
PA Auckland Mr Justice Sinclair is expected to give a decision today or tomorrow on an application for an interim injunction against 61 striking workers at the Mount Wellington plant of Irvines Bakery. His Honour told counsel after a hearing in the High Court at Auckland yesterday that he would notify them of his ruling. General Foods Corporation seeks an order to restrain the workers from continuing a six-week strike in support of a 3 per cent wage increase. The Bakers' Union has been named as first defendant and the 61 employees second defendants. 1
For Irvines, Mr H. Fulton said the claim was over and above a conciliated settlement negotiated on May 22. Mr Fulton said the strike was in breach of the award. The contract entitled the employer to engage workers at the’minimum rate of pay specified in the document. For the defendants. Mr G. L. Colgan said that the decision to strike was made by the workers themselves and was not the result of inducement by the union. He said the reference in the award to minimum rates of pay meant exactly that. "Those are the minimum rates and it contemplates rates more than that being paid during the currency of the award." y
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