Cleaners’ stop-work
Public Service cleaners in Christchurch will hold a stop-work meeting at 6 a.m. tomorrow to hear a report on a proposal by the State Services Commission not to give them the 10.4 per cent wage increase that other public servants received as a result of the annual rulingrates survey. The Combined State Unions organisation met the Minister for State Services (Mr Thomson) about the issue yesterday. The Canterbury regional secretary of the Public Service Association (Mr J. E. Cornhill) said the “spiteful” action by the State Services Commission would deprivei cleaners of $6 to $8 a week. The commission has said i it will not pass on the 10.4 per cent increase to cleaners, because they already earn
more than private-sector cleaners. Government cleaners get $3.35 an hour, comoared with private cleaners’ $3.11 an hour.
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Press, 28 November 1979, Page 6
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137Cleaners’ stop-work Press, 28 November 1979, Page 6
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