British Union’s Wage Claim
Arguing that the demands might wreck the Labour Government’s election chances .two of the largest unions affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, the Transport and General Workers’ Union and the General and Municipal Workers’' Union, jointly opposed a proposal by the Amalgamated Engineering Union that it should submit new wage demands asking for an increase of £1 a week for 2,500,000 workers employed in the engineering and shipbuilding industries. After considerable discussion the Amalgamated Engineering Union agreed to refer the proposals back to its constituent unions for further study, with instructions .to report back in one month.—London, August 19.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1949, Page 5
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