BAKERS’ DEMANDS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 10

BAKERS’ DEMANDS

Auckland Men Threaten to Cease Work

UNION’S ULTIMATUM

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Auckland, Jan. 22.

Following opposition by employees to the new wages and conditions enforced by the employers in the Bakery trade after failure in Conciliation Council proceedings, the largest meeting of the Auckland Bakers’ Union held In the last 20 years decided last night to cease work next Friday-if the master bakers did not accept the alternative proposals which the union is making, and which will be submitted to the master bakers to-morrow.

'The employers’ conditions provide wages of £4/4/- per week to journeymen bakers for 4 a.m. start, with an additional sixpence an hour for each hour worked before that, with a maximum of 2/- a shift. They also intend to reintroduce the ten hours’ day, to eliminate the annual holiday of eight days, and to reduce the minimum age of junior labourers from 18 to 16, with reduction of" the old wage of £l/IS/3 weekly to £l. The union decided not to accept these terms, but to offer a four o’clock start with wages for journeymen baker £4/10/-. It also agreed'to work night shift, starting not earlier than midnight for 10/- a week extra in all cases, annual holiday to be six days, also to forgo the picnic day. The union asked for'the fixing of the minimum age for juniors at 18, with a weekly salary of £l/17/6.