BAKERY TRADE DISPUTE

Evening Star, Issue 21317, 23 January 1933, Page 6

BAKERY TRADE DISPUTE

A STRIKE POSSIBLE (Pisa United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 22. Following opposition by the employees to the new wages and conditions enforced by the employers in the bakery trade after the failure of the conciliation proceedings, the largest meeting of the Auckland Bakers’ Union held in the last twenty years decided last, night to cease work next Friday if the master bakers do not accept the alternative proposals which the union is making and which will be submitted to the master bakers to-morrow. The employers’ conditions provide wages of £4 4s a week to journeymen bakers for 4 a.m. start, with an additional 6d an hour for each hour worked before that, with a maximum of 2s a shift. They also intend to reintroduce the ten hours’ day, to eliminate the annual holiday of eight days, the reduce the minimum age of junior labourers from 18 to 16, with a reduction of the old wage of £1 18s 3d weekly to £l. The union decided not to accept these terms, but to oiler a 4 o’clock start with wages for a journeyman baker of £4 10s per week. It was also agreed to work.a night shift starting not than midnight for 10s a week extra; in all cases the annual holiday to bo six days; also to forgo the picnic day. The union asked for the minimum age of juniors to be IS at £1 17s Cd weekly.