Mushroom pickers to fight
The Labourers’ Union says it will take legal action to recover any wages that are not paid to mushroom harvesters at Meadow Mushrooms, in Prebbleton, if they are suspended. .* The union’s, southern branch secretary, Mr Barry Brown, said yester-
day that there was no provision in the Agricultural Workers Act for suspension. If the company suspended workers that action would be illegal. Mr Brown said that workers were continuing to pick up to the 11.25 kg a daw which they had agreed to pick when they
signed up. They refused to pick more in order to put pressure on the company to negotiate a house agreement. The company called on standby pickers on Tuesday evening and last evening to pick mushrooms that had not been harvested during tire day.
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Press, 24 July 1986, Page 9
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