MOTOR DRIVERS
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE.
An industrial dispute is being initiated by the New Zealand Federated Drivers and Related Trades Industrial Union of Workers, seeking to have made as parties the motor-bus proprietors and related employers throughout New Zealand. A 48-hour week, to be completed within six days, a spread of eleven hours to cover cases where broken shifts are worked, and reasonable time for meals, with nc4 more than five hours without a break for a meal, are sought. The minimum wages asked are:—Town and suburban motor omnibus and'service car drivers: Of vehicles with a seating capacity of not more than seven passengers, £5 5s per week; of vehicles with a seating capacity of eight and not more than fifteen passengers, £5 10s; of vehicles with a seating capacity of sixteen and not more than twenty-five passengers, £5" 15s; of vehicles with a seating capacity of over twenty-five passengers, £6; drivers of s.er- - vice cars and special cars engaged on country runs, £6; taxi-drivers, £5 ss; garage employees, £5 ss. Double pay is sought for Sundays and Christmas Day, Anzaft Day, and Good Friday. Three weeks, holiday on full pay is asked. A meeting of the union and the Employers' Association, preliminary to thf hearing of the dispute by the concilia! ) tion Commissioner, .is being held to-day.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1926, Page 3
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217MOTOR DRIVERS Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1926, Page 3
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