WORK RESUMES AT PLANT
Wall board Men Go Back
Eighteen men who had been on strike for more than two weeks returned to work at the Opawa plant of New Zealand Wallboards, Ltd., yesterday. The Labour Department is to take a test case on a wage rates dispute to the Arbitration Court, alleging breaches of the CanterburyWestland plasterers’ award. The firm has already applied to the Court to have its workers covered by the same award terms as those covering its North Island plants. Talks held last week among representatives of the company, the department, and the Canterbury distric’ council of the Federation of Labour led to yesterday’s resumption of work. An early hearing of the test case against the company unexpected.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 23
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122WORK RESUMES AT PLANT Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 23
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