WORKING HOURS OF DRIVERS
UNION DISAGREES WITH MINISTER WAY CLEAR FOR BREACHES ” (P.A.) AUCKLAND. September 25. Deep concern has been expressed among drivers following the reported statement by the Minister for Transport (the Hon. R. Semple) in Parliament that prosecutions for breaches of the drivers’ award in reference to working hours would not be allowed to proceed unless specific instructions were given by him, said Mr L. G. Matthews, secretary of the Auckland Drivers’ Union, in a statement to-day. The award, he said, was framed in accordance with the Transport Act and under the terms 66 hours were the maximum to be worked in any one week. The union took the strongest exception to the attitude, adopted by the Minister and his statement left the way clear for award breaches to be indulged in. The union still had a number of workers engaged only casually when they could be engaged at full time capacity helping the war industries. While such a position existed, the union would not agree to any addition to daily or weekly hours which, in the union’s opinion, were already excessive.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23444, 26 September 1941, Page 10
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