Unionist wants resigners’ dues for unemployed
PA Napier Industrial rows over voluntary unionism could be avoided if those resigning were directed to pay the equivalent of their union dues to help the country’s unemployed, says the Hawke’s Bay organiser of the Clerical Workers’ Union, Mr Tom Johnson.
The clerical union, the second largest in New Zealand, has been hardest hit by the Industrial Law Reform Act which makes provision for voluntary unionism.
In Hawke’s Bay the union has lost nearly 9 per cent of its 1836 members.
Mr Johnson, who is attempting to avert industrial rows over voluntary unionism breaking out at Wattie’s Canneries and the Leopard Brewery in Hastings, said the act needed to be amended to allow people resigning from the union to make contributions to unemployed support groups.
An amendment to the act along these lines would take a lot of heat out of the industrial situation in the country.
“But the contributions would have to be the equivalent of unions dues and initially go to assist the unemployed,” he said.
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