HOSPITAL ORDERLIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 162, 11 July 1945, Page 4

HOSPITAL ORDERLIES.

With reference to the published comment by 'Mr. R. Beckett on the wages paid to orderlies and wardsmaids at the Auckland Hospital, evidently Mr. Beckett did not state that the union which covers these workers has taken proceedings to collect back dues from members, after non-payment after 13 weeks, yet the same union officials have taken over seven months to bring the just claims of these workers before the Conciliation Commissioner. Surely if the Hotel and Related Trades Union would apply its energies, to the earlier revision of the hospital workers' expired award, as it has been energetic in the collection of its dues from the hospital workers,' this unjust scale of wages would not be in existence to-day. Mr. Beckett, the secretary of the job' committee, also did not state that 80 per cent of these workers work 38 Sundays a year at ordinary rates.'of pay, and men are also employed on night duty at ordinary rates. Regarding the returned servicemen who have not returned to the hospital service, and those that have left it since their return, the majority served with the Medical Corps overseas and expected a much better standard of living from the Hospital Board on their return. SOLD'IER AND ORDERLY.