Stop-work today
Christchurch shops will be short of staff today as members attend a stopwork meeting at the Town Hall in response to the Government’s decision to allow Saturday trading. The meeting is timed to start at 9 a.m. and will .probably- last two hours. But according to the secretary of the Canterbury Shop Employees’ Union (Mr B. Alderdice) it is “on the cards” that members may vote to stay away from work for the rest of the day, as . has already happened at Auckland,
Wellington and Dunedin. It is. expected that more than. 2500 will attend the meeting, which will be addressed by the Shop Employees’ Association’s industrial officer (Mr R. Campbell). The meeting will vote on an executive recommendation for industrial action. In spite of a union call for them to stay out for the day, Hamilton shop employees returned to work yesterday .after a three-hour stopwork meet--ing protesting against Saturday trading legislation.
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Press, 18 July 1980, Page 1
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