Wool testers’ ban lifted
Bans on wool exports and the supply of wool samples and chemicals were lifted yesterday when the Wool Testing Authority agreed to take a pay dispute with its employees to mediation. Exports through Napier and Lyttelton were halted when watersiders agreed last Friday to a request by the Public Service Association for support over their claims for State pay linkage. Napier testing authority workers went on strike and were suspended.
Christchurch P.S.A. members at the authority’s premises in St Asaph Street went on strike on Friday afternoon and
yesterday picketed both entrances to the premises. The authority’s corporate services manager, Mr Dewi Evans, said from Napier that the Public Service Association and the authority had signed an agreement yesterday whereby there would be an immediate return to work with all bans lifted, and the authority agreed to put the pay dispute to mediation. The dispute will go before Mr Jim Newman, a mediator, in Wellington on Monday. It centres on whether the authority has any obligation to pay a 4.5 per cent State pay linkage.
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Press, 4 November 1986, Page 2
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