Trade Unions As “Employers”
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.).-—“lt would suit me—four days off to go fishing or pig hunting or something,” said Mr Justice Tyndall in the Arbitration Court today in the course of hearing evidence in the hospital workers’ section of the enginedrivers’ dispute. Mr A. D. Wilson, engineer to the North Canterbury Hospital Board, told the Court that the shift-work men looking after the boilers in the two Christchurch hospitals could, by running their days off together, finish at 8 a.m. on Thursday and resume at 4 p.m. on the following Tuesday. Mr Justice Tyndall then made the comment as quoted, adding: “Of course the Court would have to sit on Sundays sometimes and that would not suit some union secretaries. 1 do not know of any union . that pays double time. The unions are the most unsatisfactory employers in the country. They do not recognise such things as overtime.” -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 September 1949, Page 4
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