AUCKLAND PETROL FLEET TIED UP
Drivers Claim Forty-Hour | Week | [Per Press Association. Copyright.! AUCKLAND, This Day.The whole of Auckland’s petrol distributing fleet was tied up this morning, as the result of the drivers ceasing work, as a protest against not being granted a 40hour week. Forty drivers in the city are affected. A conference is in progress between the' representatives of the union and the companies in an endeavour to effect a settlement. The men concerned are covex-ed by the Northern Taranaki. Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, Southland, and Otago motor and horse drivers awards, and the drivers employed throughout New Zealand number 4000. Extra Supplies Laid In. Representatives of the union contend that, under their award, they are entitled to a 40-hour week, instead oi a 44-hour week and state that they are seeking retrospective payments from December 21 last, when the award came into force. The possibility of trouble developing was known to numbers of garages and petrol retailers during the week, and extra supplier were laid in.
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Northern Advocate, 25 June 1937, Page 5
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