Dispute affects airline food
LES BLOXHAM,
travel editor
It will be just like old times for passengers on Ansett New Zealand flights today. They will be offered only drinks and biscuits instead of the more substantial meals they have been accustomed to since the advent of competi-
tion oi the domestic airways. , I The nostalgic taste of the past has been forced on airline by an industr al dispute between :he company that is contracted to provide it witl meals and the Service Workers’ Federation. The company. Food
Concepts Inc., Ltd. has kitchens in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Staff at the northern kitchens went on, strike 10 days ago, and the 35 employees in Christchurch decided yesterday to stop work from midnight. The dispute is over wage' rates. Food Con-
cepts offers, $7.90 an hour, but the federation wants $8.29,) the minimum paid by Air NewZealand to jits catering kitchen staff! Ansett is hot prepared to comment: on the dispute, which jit sees as a matter between one of its sub-contractors and a union. •
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