Mill lock-out puzzles staff
PA Auckland Combined union officials are expected to meet New Zealand Steel mill extension site management representatives today to discuss the dispute involving the 1500 employees on the project.
The workers were yesterday banned from the site and union sources said a return to work seemed unlikely this week. Fewer than 400 turned up for a combined site union meeting at 7.30 a.m. to hear a union advocate, Mr Ray Bianchi, say he
did not know what had prompted the lock-out. A construction contractor, 1.H.1. Heavy Industries, would not say why the men were kept from work but the lock-out was preceded by a string Of minor industrial disputes. Union representatives expected to have received the company’s demands yesterday and will meet 1.H.1. management this afternoon. New Zealand Steel’s managing director, Mr John Ingram, said the aim of the lockout was to persuade the workforce to accept previously agreed methods of solving disputes and to improve productivity in accordance with the site agreement.
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