Labourers vote to keep striking
By
CULLEN SMITH
Christchurch builders’ labourers will continue their strike at least until next week in a bid to force employers to sign an award agreement. About 100 members of the Labourers’ Union voted in Christchurch yesterday to continue their indefinite strike until Tuesday, when they will review its effects. The city labourers have been on strike since April 17 in protest at what they claim is a refusal by employers to sign their award until industry redundancies are negotiated. Builders’ labourers in Dunedin and Wellington have also voted to stay out until Tuesday. Auckland union mem-
bers, on strike over the unsettled award since April 5, were to meet today. The union’s southern branch organiser, Mr Steve Reardon, said Christchurch labourers were annoyed that two construction companies — Wilkins and Davies, Ltd, and Fletchers — had locked out labourers. About 100 city labourers were back at work after 15 local employers agreed to pay a 4 per * cent increase in wages and allowances, backdated to December 1. Mr Reardon said Christchurch employers appeared to be as frustrated as the union. “We are being used as pawns by the big employers north of the Bombay Hills,” he said.
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