Written warning shuts down N.Z.M.C. plant at Nelson
Nelson reporter The refusal by the management of the New Zealand Motor Corporation to withdraw a written warning given to a metal finisher has shut the company’s assembly plant at Stoke, near Nelson. Twelve metal finishers are at the heart of a dispute which resulted in the management suspending 300 workers yesterday morning. A stop-work meeting of workers to be held this morning will be attended by Mr Graham Clarke, national secretary of the New Zealand Coachworkers’ Union,
to which the majority of plant workers belong. The plant’s manager, Mr Roger Harding, said last evening that there would be work for everybody today if everybody was prepared to go back to work. The factory assemmbles Land-Rovers, Honda Cities, and Honda Accords. One of the metal finishers was asked on Monday to transfer for three days to a painting job — one which he had done before — but he objected to this. Although the management replaced him with another, he was given a written warning for WHIJMWHHH HIM IfIMIIfrWXJWMffUmWZU.TtnUI!naWagBa
failing to comply with what was an accepted transfer practice. The metal finishers, at a stop-work meeting on Tuesday afternoon, asked the management to withdraw the warning or they would strike. When this was refused the metal finishers stopped work at 1.30 p.m. Mr Harding said that because the metal finishers were not available for work yesterday morning, the company reluctantly suspended the other 300 workers. “We have a very good
track record in this plant and we lean over backwards to see that it is maintained. That’s why when this chap objected to doing the paint job we found somebody else. We gave him a warning because his refusal ran contrary to accepted practice,” Mr Harding said. The - union yesterday morning offered to leave the warning lying on the table and go back to work while it was under discussion but the management refused to do this and the other workers were suspended.
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