WATERSIDE WORKERS
Guaranteed Minimum Wage Criticized FARMERS’ UNION VIEW Dominion Special Service. DUNEDIN, August 22. The decision of the Government to pay waterside workers a guaranteed minimum wage was adversely criticized today at a meeting of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union. The following resolution was discussed in committee and carried:
"That this council emphatically protests against the decision of the Government to pay waterside workers a guaranteed minimum of £3/10/- a week, regardless of their earnings the week before or the week later. Under the new arrangement made, it appears that a waterside worker can earn, say, £l6 one week, and, say, £l4 two weeks later; yet if his earnings for the week in between do not come up to £3/10/such a worker is entitled to have his wages made up to this amount out of public funds. In the opinion of this council il would be definitely cheaper to the country and to the producer to pay waferside workers a standard weekly wage to encourage the harbour hoard employee type of worker and older younger men to take on such work.”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 282, 23 August 1940, Page 10
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