New Zealand Industrial Relations Society: Extracts from the President's Annual Report 1976-77

It is with pleasure that I present the fourth annual report of the New Zealand Industrial Relations Society. The past year has been one of mounting industrial conflict, with the largest number of stoppages since 1951, and consequently growing public concern with industrial relations. This has been reflected in the great increase in membership of our society, which has trebled during the past year, rising from 45 to 145. We are still a relatively small organisation, but with the establishment of a branch in Wellington we are at last becoming a truly national society