DRIVERS’ UNION
No-Confidence Vote Fails A vote of no-confidence in the executive of the Canterbury Drivers’ Union was defeated by 54 votes to 22 in a show of hands at the union’s half-yearly meeting in the Trades Hall said the union’s secretary (Mr A. S. Roberts). One union member present had claimed that the executive was a lot of “yes-men.” He said the executive listened too keenly to the boss’s point of view.
Drivers throughout Christchurch, said Mr Roberts, would hold stop-work meetings if employers would not give favourable consideration to increasing the meal allowance for drivers by 2s 6d to 7s 6d. One member told the meeting that the present 5s meal allowance was insufficient to buy a meal satisfactory to a truck-driver.
Five shillings, said the driver, was not enough to buy a good meal in Lyttelton. A fish meal in Lyttelton, he said, cost 7s 6d or Bs. He failed to see why the truck-driver should be out of pocket. Mr Roberts said that the union would ask for a 7s 6d meal allowance for drivers in its next award.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30531, 28 August 1964, Page 6
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