Waterfront Workers' Union members in Wellington, listening to Union secretary Trevor Hansen during the protest preventing new Cook Strait ferry, the Straitsman, from sailing - Photographs taken by John Nicholson

Waterfront Workers' Union members in Wellington, listening to Union secretary Trevor Hansen during the protest preventing new Cook Strait ferry, the Straitsman, from sailing - Photographs taken by John Nicholson
Date
16 Apr 1992
By
Nicholson, John, active 1997
Reference
EP/1992/2322-F
Description

Waterfront Workers' Union members in Wellington, listening to Union secretary Trevor Hansen during the protest preventing new Cook Strait ferry, the 'Straitsman', from sailing. Photographs taken 16 April 1992, by Evening Post staff photographer John Nicholson.

Publication note - Published in the Evening Post, 16 April 1992

Source of descriptive information - Evening Post article, 16 April 1992

The Union was angry the 'Straitman' was to have non-unionised crew as allowed under the Employment Contracts Act of 1991. Members blocked the ship's entrance, preventing two trucks from loading about 150 cattle.

Quantity: 1 colour original negative(s) (Individual image on negative strip).

Physical Description: Dye coupler negative, 35mm

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Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers / Further negatives of the Evening Post newspaper
Format
1 colour original negative(s) (Individual image on negative strip), Negatives, Dye coupler negatives, Dye coupler negative, 35mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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