FREEZING AWARD.
EMPLOYERS' APPLICATION. (Special to "The Guardian.") CHRISTPHUBCH, August 17. The ' application of the employers for a new Dominion award governing the wages and conditions of employment in the freezing works is expected to be heard bv the Arbitration Court at a sitting in Christchurch early in October. . „ The existing award expired on December 31 last year and no action was taken by the freezing companies until after the Auckland, Freezing Workers , Union created a dispute by applying for new conditions providing for an increase in wages. The employers then filed counter claims in. which they asked for reductions in wages varying from 17 to 25 per cent. Since then the General Order of the Arbitration Court making a 10 per cent reduction in wages has taken effect, and it is presumed that the employers will now ask for wages to be reduced by the difference between the 10 per cent cut and the 17 to 25 pel cent originally applied for.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 261, 18 August 1931, Page 3
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