STRIKE SETTLEMENT AT LAKE TEKAPO
P.A. TIMARU, February 23. The strike at Lake Tekapo hydro, affecting 220 employees of the Public Works Department, has been settled., The men returned to work this morning. Their demand that the acting senior engineer, Mr R. G. Brickell, be stripped of authority in dealing with the men has been acceded to, and Mr Brickell has applied for extended leave as from next Monday. The resident engineer, Mr R. Deans Ritchie, has returned to Tekapo, and harmonious relations have been restored, says a statement from the Lake Tekapo Workers’ Union. The strike started on February 13 at 0.30 p.m., when exception was taken to the dismissal of two men who had been ordered to do work which, it was claimed, was outside the scope of their agreement. Senior engineers of the P.W.D. and officials of the N-Z. Workers’ Union negotiated in the dispute, which was settled late on Tuesday night.
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Grey River Argus, 24 February 1949, Page 5
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