RAILWAY TRIBUNAL’S FINDINGS
The findings of the Railways Industrial Tribunal were the subject of a statement made yesterday by the general secretary of the New Zealand Railway Officers’ Institute, Mr. J. S Roscoe, lie said that the considerations which had actuated the tribunal in its initial proceedings concerning salaries and wages were just as important, today; in fact, those considerations were today even more cogent than when they were first brought to the notice of the tribunal. "We say that we are entitled to some recognition above the normal run for the onerous conditions of our work,” said Mr. Roscoe. “Further, we are suffering irom the loss of social life through the fact that every weekend and also at holiday times we are going to the limit of our endurance. We think it is a case for recognition of that in the salary schedule; we cannot get holidays to make up for it. “During the last five years as many as 100,000 days of leave have piled up, and this is causing a great amount of sickness?’
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Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 27, 26 October 1945, Page 6
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