AUSTRALIAN UNIONS
FIGHTING WAGE-PEGGING
SYDNEY, December 5. Members of the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions now meeting here expect that a decision on its request for an amendment of the wartime wage-pegging regulations will be made by the Federal Council this week. Wage-pegging was introduced by a National Security Regulation in February, 1942. The regulations set out that wages shall remain pegged at existing levels and shall not be varied unless an anomaly can be shown to exist. The unions claim that the term "anomaly" has not been interpreted sufficiently widely and that the pegging of wages has resulted in injustices. The trade unions are a]so seeking the general introduction of a 40-hour week and a minimum of two weeks' annual holiday for all. workers, to come into force six months after the war ends.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 4
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138AUSTRALIAN UNIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 4
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