Oil fitters’ dispute
A dispute over doubletime back-pay for Woolston oil-installation fitters has been put in the hands of a disputes committee, which will meet in Christchurch on May 4 under the South Is-' land conciliator, Mr L. Fortune. The fitters had decided to, serve 14 days notice of] industrial action if the dispute was not resolved, but. the secretary of the Canter-; bury branch of the Engin-I eers’ Union (Mr R. J. Todd)] said the union had now agreed not to send the notice to the employers, Mobil Oil (N.Z.), Ltd. The fitters want doubletime payments for working after 10 p.m. or before 6 a.m. to be backpaid to 1974, when the payments were made to aircraft refuellers at Christchurch Airport. The company wants to pay from; October" last year.
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Press, 19 April 1979, Page 6
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131Oil fitters’ dispute Press, 19 April 1979, Page 6
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