WALLBOARD DISPUTE
Resumption Of Work
As a result of meetings among representatives of the Canterbury district council of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, the Labour Department and New Zealand Wallboards, Ltd., work will be resumed at the company’s factory at Opawa on Monday. Eighteen men stopped work at the factory two weeks ago as a protest against the company's application to the Court of Arbitration to be exempted from the Canterbury and Westland plasterers’ award.
The decision to resume work was announced yesterday by the vice-president of the district council of the federation (Mr I. Short). Under the terms agreed to, he said, the Labour Department would take enforcement action against the company in the Arbitration Court alleging a breach of the Canterbury and Westland award. It was hoped to have an early hearing of this test case.
The company will still proceed with its application for exemption from the award. This means that the 39 employees of Winstone, Blackburn e, Smith. Ltd., South Island distributors for New Zealand Wallboards, Ltd., have had their notice of dismissal revoked. The employees were to have been dismissed yesterday if there was no resumption of work at the wallboard factory. The factory manager of New Zegjand Wallboards, Ltd. (Mr M. J. Bridgman' confirmed that the men would be returning to work, ano that an agreement had been reached by the company in discussions with the district council of the federation under the chairmanship of the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr S. W. Armstrong).
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 13 May 1961, Page 12
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