CASUAL LABOUR AT FREEZING WORKS
Objection By Union (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 20. Persons who spend their two weeks’ holiday by working at freezing works were criticised by the secretary of the New Zealand Freezing Workers’ Union (Mr R. Bailey) in a statement issued in Auckland today. “We intend to take steps to stop this sort of thing,” he said. The union was not opposed to university students accepting employment at freezing works during their holidays, Mr Bailey said. They needed this employment to finance them through their schooling “We have no objection to the true seasonal worker,” he said. “But we are opposed to the industry becoming a dumping ground for people who stay only a few days and then return to employment right outside the industry.”
Forestry Workers' Award.—All minimum rates are increased by lid an hour, or 5s a week, in an award for New Zealand (except Westland) forestry workers issued by the Court of Arbitratiom The award, retrospective to September 30, embodies the terms of settlement reached in Conciliation Council.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28440, 21 November 1957, Page 6
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