Invercargill bus strike
Sir, — As a bus-driver’s wife, with a young family, I must think about every cent before it is spent, especially with today’s soaring costs. My husband’s take-home pay, after taxes and union dues etc., are deducted, hardly survives the journey, and very little is left for extras. I would like to know therefore why my husband must, I say again must, contribute 50c a week to support the striking drivers. If he does not he could be blacklisted. The whole issue in Invercargill seems idiotic. Do these drivers want to do their own cleaning? I hardly think so. Do these women concerned have a passenger driving licence? If not how can they become members of the Drivers’ Union? How would these men feel about taking an apple a day from
each of my children, as that 50c would just about cover this little extra? Why don’t they solve their own problems? — Yours, etc., CHRISTCHURCH BUS DRIVER’S IRATE WIFE. September 29, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33963, 2 October 1975, Page 14
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