Rubbish left in streets
Thousands of rubbish bags were left uncollected throughout Christchurch yesterday when City Council labourers decided not to return to work after a stopwork meeting.
Duncan Braithwaite, aged 13, left, and Malcolm Gill, aged nine, recline on a pile of the uncollected rubbish bags at the corner of Philpotts Road and Knowles Street, St Albans. Up to 400 council labourers attended the morning meeting, where, they decided not to return to work for the rest of the day, in protest against the wage freeze. Rubbish bags which were missed yesterday will be collected when the workers return to work today. A Labourers’ Union organiser, Mr Garth Lomax, said that the workers were “incensed” at the Government’s attitude over the freeze, and the burden put on low-income earners.
He emphasised that the protest was directed at the
Government, and not the City Council, which had “made all the right sympathetic noises so far.”
The workers called on the council to join the Labourers’ Union in a combined approach to get the freeze lifted. Mr Lomax said that council labourers had not had a wage increase since December, 1981, and their real wages had fallen $4O. He said that if the council had not been sympathetic to their plight, the action taken could have been stronger.
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Press, 24 June 1983, Page 1
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