FARM WORKERS’ MEETINGS
Arrangements Bv Union The New Zealand Workers' Union intended to call meetings of shearers and farm station workers in every district of the South Island, beginning next month, said the South Island secretary of the union <Mr W. A. Dempster) yesterday. “We have had numerous inquiries about the provision made for minimum accommodation standards for farm workers in the Agricultural Workers’ Bill and, without exception. the inquirers are not members of our union," Mr Dempster said. He said that one of the pur. poses of the meetings would be to encourage farm workers to join the New Zealand Workers’ Union. The rates of pay and conditions for farm and station workers were made by extension orders to the act. normally passed by an Order-in Council, after agreement had been reached between Federated Farmers and the union.
' ’Farm workers in the South Island are, in the main, pretty well treated by their employers, but many of the
arrangements between the worker and employer are verbal agreements only,” Mr Dempster said.
He said that his union estimated that there were 95.000 farm workers in New Zealand. but only a fraction were members of the union
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30054, 12 February 1963, Page 19
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