BAKERS’ DECISION

Grey River Argus, 31 January 1946, Page 4

BAKERS’ DECISION

FIVE-DAY WEEK Wellington Men Follow Auckland P.A. WELLINGTON, January 30. _ A decision that, beginning with this week, they would bake bread and small goods on only five days in the v?eek, was reached by the bakery employees in the Wellington district this afternoon, at one of the largest meetings of their union held by the members of the Wellington branch of the Bakery Employees’ Union. The secretary of the New Zealand Employees’ Union, Mr A. A. McDonald, said later; “The members of the Union were fully conversant with the decision’ of Wellington master bakers, at their meeting on January 17, when, by a majority of almost three to one, they affirmed the principle of the fiveday week. But. this decision was overriden by the New Zealand Master Bakers’ Executive, and was not put into effect.

“The result of yesterday’s decision of the Union will be that the employees will be prepared to bake all of the extra bread which the master bakers may desire to provide full deliveries on Fridays so as to cover the week-ends, a step with which the Auckland employees also agreed, but which the Auckland master bakers have so far refused to implement,” said Mr McDonald.

The president of the Wellington Master Bakers’ Organisation, Mr Fairey, when asked to comment on the employees’ Resolution, said that, for the present, he had no statement to make. A meeting ,of the master bakers had been called for to-morrow, and it was probable that a statement would follow.