Wool dispute
The Wool Testing Authority is still considering its options to counter trade union bans and a strike at its Christchurch laboratory.
The authority’s corporate services manager, Mr Dewi Evans, said from Napier yesterday that the authority still intended to meet a conciliator in Christchurch on February 16 and 17, but would await developments by the unions before deciding on any other course of action.
If wool exports were disrupted the authority could appeal against a decision of the High Court before Christmas to disallow an application for an interim injunction restraining unions from placing bans on wool. ,
Mr Evans said that the authority was’ in close touch with other organisations in the wool industry.
About half of the workers in the Christchurch laboratory are on strike and have been picketing the laboratory. Mr Evans said that the strike had meant that a lot of the authority's work in testing was going to a private company, Wool Testing Services. The strike began early last month over a claim for a catch-up for State pay linkage, but has developed into a dispute over whether workers are correctly covered by the Public Service Association or as the authority contends, the Woollen Workers’ Union. •
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Press, 6 January 1987, Page 3
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