A.C.T.U. backs dockers
NZPA-Reuter Sydney Australia’s powerful trade union movement yesterday formally backed an indefinite strike by dockers which is crippling Australian ports. Mr Simon Crean, president of the Australian
Council of Trade Unions, said the council would also support Industrial action by other workers affected by a wages authority ruling on minimal pay increases for this year. Mr Crean said workers in other key industries including transport, building, oil, coal and metal
were likely to take action.
The Arbitration Commission last week ordered minimal pay increases and rejected union demands tor a national em-ployer-funded superannuation retirement scheme. The Confederation of Australian Industry bit-
terly attacked the A.C.T.U. stand, saying that the dockworkers’ strike, now in its third day, would cost an estimated sAustl.6 million ($1.9 million) a day and that the Australian economy could ill afford similar action by other large unions.
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