NURSES’ UNION

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1936, Page 7

NURSES’ UNION

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. (Per Pi;ess Association, Limited). WELLINGTON, June 15. As an application lor registration jf a Dental ana Medical Nurses' Union was lodowed by an application for a Cental iNurses’ Union, the nurses - responsibly for the iirst application waited on the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Minister for Labour, requesting that registration should not be granted to i particular section. The Minister said he did not know if any barrier to meuical and dental aurses being registered as one industrial union, and there would be no bai co private hospital nurses being included because such hospitals were operated for pecuniary gain. Hospital ooards, on the other hand, might apply for exemption for hospital nurses, claiming that .their hospitals were not operated for gain. If a dental *ano medical nurses’ union secured registration, registration would have to be refused any one section on the grounds that there was a union to which they could properly belong The Minister said he would arrange for the Registrar of Industrial Unions to examine both applications for registration. ,If the department decided tc* consider registering the combined union, the other side would have to be advised, so as to have an opportunity to show why registration should not be granted. It was not the Government’s desire to force the one-big-union ; dea on r ' a ople who did not want it. bet machinery had been provided in (O-o v>ow legislation for those who desired it.