WORK AND WAGES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 13027, 27 November 1936, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES

DENTAL ASSIST A NTS INDUSTRIAL DISPUTB UNION CLAIMS £7 \ WEEK DOWNWARD (Tress Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 20. Approximately 200 dentists in the Auckland industrial district are involved in the dental assistants’, and technicians’ dispute which will bo heard in the Conciliation Council proceedings at Auckland on December 8. The citation prepared by the union, which is the first of its kind in New Zealand, discloses a claim for a working week of 37-J hours restricted to five days and a minimum scale of wages for male and female workers. The Auckland Dental Assistants and Technicians’ Union claims that all adult workers doing plaster work, metal or vulcanite and metal work, should receive not less than £7 a week, while those 'doing vulcanite work should receive at least £6 os a week. A head mechanic should receive 5s a week extra for each mechanic or apprentice employed in the es tablishment, while female dental assistants beginning work at under 18 years of age are rated at £1 5s for the first six months, rising by 5s a half year until at two years they receive £2 a week. After that the union asks that these workers be regarded as senior assistants in receipt of not less than £2 5s a week. It asked that all work performed by employees in excess of the hours provided in the citation should be paid at the rate of time and a half for tho first two hours, and double time thereafter. The union also claims two. weeks’ holiday yearly.