Weights upset workers
The zeal of growers in packing their wool bales this season has upset the people who have to carry that weight, the wool store employees. Mr Barry Brown, the union advocate for the Wool, Grain and Hide Stores Award, said in Christchurch this week that some bales were coming in with 220 to 250 kg weights, which are well over the agreed limit of 204 kg plus 2 per cent tolerance.
“The big weights are
actually putting the brokers in breach of the award,” he said, “but we realise that they are the meat in the sandwich.
Recently the Wool Board acknowledged that its campaign to lift the national average bale weight had succeeded too well and that too many overweight bales were coming into stores. Farmers have been asked to attend to the average weight without going over the industry-agreed 204 kg maximum.
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Press, 31 January 1986, Page 13
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