Widespread action likely
Manufacturing firms throughout the top half of the South Island are expected to be affected by industrial action over the breakdown in conciliation talks for the metal trades award.
More than 200 Engineers’ Union delegates in Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru,
Nelson, and the West Coast yesterday backed a call from the union to take action against the employers’ offer of a 10 per cent pay increase.
The talks broke down last week after the union, which seeks 17 per cent, rejected the employers’ offer.
Engineers at 15 Christ-
church workshops yesterday announced their plans for action. Two workshops will strike for two days, 11 will strike for one day, and two will ban overtime. A clearer indication of the extent of the engineers’ action should emerge after a series of workshop meetings planned throughout the region today.
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