Relief Workers' Rights
SAME AS INDUSTRIAL WORKERS,
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 23. The effect of recent legislation, particularly the amendments abolishing distinction between relief workers and industrial workers, Mr Butler, National Secretary of the General and Municipal Workors’ Federation said to-day was that the term relief worker is now a thing of the past. The position, he said, now is: First, awards and agreements apply to what were known as relief workers; second, the men must join a union where an award exists covering the work they are doing; third, unions can make representations on behalf of the men; fourth, overtime and other award conditions apply; fifth, the’ onus is on the employing authority to see that the men become members of a union under whose award they are working. The men, he said, now have the same Tights and privileges in the eyes of the law as any industrial worker.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 173, 24 July 1936, Page 7
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152Relief Workers' Rights Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 173, 24 July 1936, Page 7
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