Meat pay talks to resume
PA Wellington Meat industry unions will meet the Federation of Labour tomorrow to discuss unresolved pay talks.
The Meatworkers' Union and the Engineers’ Union, which represents industry tradesmen, will be involved.
Meat workers’ pay talks broke down last week and have been referred to the Arbitration Court The workers are claiming a 15.5 per cent pay increase — the going rate for the wage round. Em-
ployers are offering a $23 a week increase which for many workers is equivalent to a 4 or 5 per cent rise.
Freezing industry tradesmen have met employers on two occasions so far to negotiate the freezing industry tradesmen’s wage agreement without a settlement Those talks will resume after the unions have met with the F.O.L.
Freezing industry employers have offered tradesmen a flat incibase of $25 a week.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19860129.2.35.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, 29 January 1986, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
139Meat pay talks to resume Press, 29 January 1986, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in