Oil Store Employees Want All-Round Wages Increase
[Special To “Northern Advocate”] AUCKLAND. This Day.
An all-round increase in wages for oil store employees was sought in an application fcr a Dominion award in the Second Court of Arbitration to-day by the New Zealand Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union. Mr Justice Hunter presided, and with him were associated Messrs. Anderson and Croskery. Mr. W. J. Mountjoy, of Wellington, is appearing for the employers, while the union is represented by Mr. W. Brctherton, of Sydney, Federal secretary of the Australian Storemen and Packers’ Union, Mr. W. Miller, of Wellington, secretary of the New Zealand Storemen and Packers’ Federation, and Mr. W. Herbert, Dunedin, secretary of the Otago and Southland Union.
The hearing is expected to last tv/o days. At present oil store employees are working under the terms of an award which expired about a year ago. They were first granted a Dominion award in 1922.
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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1937, Page 7
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