Industrial action due
PA Wellington Industrial action threatened by New Zealand’s meat workers is due to begin at midnight tomorrow with a ban on the load-out of export meat and pelts. The load-out ban comes after the breakdown of negotiations on the national award. Both parties have agreed to a pay increase, but are deadlocked over a clause on
shed agreements. The union wants the clause allowing for the continuation of these agreements retained in the award. Employers have, refused, arguing instead for individual plant agreements. Their advocates have said retaining the shed agreement in the national award amounts to second-tier bargaining, no longer allowed under the Labour Relations Act.
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Press, 2 May 1988, Page 9
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