Ferrymasters to retain full pay
PA Wellington The Arbitration Court has ruled that three Cook Strait ferrymasters be demoted but retained on full masters’ pay for the next three years. The decision was released late yesterday and was greeted with enthusiasm by the Railways Corporation, and treated as a mere compromise by the Merchant Service Guild. The guild and Railways Corporation went to arbitration last month after the Minister of Labour, Mr Rodger invoked rarely used powers under the Industrial Relations Act to end a three-day rail ferry stoppage and order the guild to arbitration. Railways regarded the three masters as surplus and wanted to demote
them to chief officers, while keeping them on masters’ pay rates for two years. The guild said the men’s positions were safeguarded by a 1984 agreement and said although the men could be demoted they should retain masters’ conditions until they resumed that role.
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