Lunch break used to push claim
All the staff of a Christchurch builders’ merchant have a lunch break at the same time each day to press home a claim for a 30 per cent wage increase. About 100 staff, including stores workers, shop assistants, clerks, and drivers at Ashby Ferguson, in Manchester Street and Sheffield Crescent, take their lunch break between noon and 1 p.m.
The company’s chief executive, Mr Alistair Edmond, said yesterday that
only restricted services could be offered by managerial staff to customers during this time. The company had been approached by the combined unions who sought a site agreement for all staff. The company believed that its wage structure, benefits, and incentives, were more than satisfactory and did not accept the union claim that all workers deserved a blanket increase of 30 per cent, said Mr Edmond.
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Press, 30 August 1985, Page 4
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