FIFTY MEN ON STRIKE
Dispute About Night Shift
STAFF OF METTERS, LTD.
Fifty men', the staff of Metters, Ltd., porcelain enamellers, Petone, went on strike at the close of work on Monday, following a dispute as to the working time of men on the night shift.
“The position is that the night shift of only four men required payment as for 40 hours for only 371 hours’ actual work,” stated the company yesterday, in answer to an inquiry as to the cause of the stoppage. “The company claims that its demand is in accordance with the last existing award, and that in this it is supported by the secretaries of the only two unions interested in the dispute. The men concerned were not dismissed, but they refused to continue under the company’s conditions. In sympathy the whole staff made a demand which the company could not accept and all hands at once ceased work. Contrary to established procedure in such, circumstances, work was left at a stage in process when serious loss and damage to plant were involved.”
The men are to hold a meeting at 10 a.m. to-day.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 229, 24 June 1936, Page 10
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