ALL-IN CONTRACT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 December 1945, Page 4

ALL-IN CONTRACT

WATERSIDERS PLAN COMPANY WORKING SHIPS IN MAJOR PORTS NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY Wellington, This Day. Waterside workers are planning a cd-operative company on a national scale to take over the loading and unloading of ships in the major New Zealand ports on an all-in contract basis. Negotiations are under way. Details, it is understood, are a subject for discussion at the conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, which has been sitting in Wellington this week. Union officials claim that the contract scheme will create greater efficiency on the waterfront, and promote a quicker turn-round of ships. They contend that it will eliminate delays over disputes, and prove more satisfactory to all parties concerned. Means to establish greater control for workers in other sections of industry are under, stood to be under discussion within the trade union movement. Representative watersiders state that in the accounts of the Waterfront Control Commission there are funds standing to the credit of the waterfront industry, from which they believe they will be entitled to draw when they purchase gear for the co-operative company. *