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Subject: PRINT UNIONS

Author:
BILL NAIRN

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Date Posted: 02:51:51 09/24/01 Mon

In New Zealand we had the advantage of being some time behind what happened to "hot metal" printing in U.S.A. and U.K. We had very strong chapels in newspaper plants and 100%union membership. The union here decided early on that it was futile to oppose the new technology but as N.Z. had a very regulated industrial relations climate the union was in a strong position through the national award (contract) as this gave control of the occupation and process to union members only. In 1988 we achieved the best deal anywhere in the world for either retraining (optional and for a trial period)or a very generous redundancy agreement. It took five years to achieve this. Ninety-five percent of newspapers here are owned by two companies: INL and Wilson
& Horton - INL accepted the deal in 1988 and although there were no redundancies at W & H until 1999 when O'Reilly the
new owner paid out a reasonably good deal.
Fraternally, Bill Nairn former Printing Trades Union officer
and linotype operator.

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