GASWORKERS' SHIFTS.
APPEAL FROft? DECISION.
CONTENTIONS BY UNION.
An appeal from a decision given in the Magistrate's Court by Mr. E. C. Cut*en,, S.M., was made in tho Arbitration Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Frazer, and Messrs. W. Scott and H. Hunter, assessors. The Auckland Gas Employees' Union (Mr. Tuck) were tho appellants and tho Auckland Cas Company (Mr. Wright) the respondents. In the Magistrate's Court an action was brought against tho company . for an alleged breach of an agreement arrived at by 11 Labour Disputes Investigation Committee. The breach was alleged to have been in an arrangement of day work between shifts. The magistrate gave judgment in favour of the company, and it was against that decision that tho union now appealed. For tho union, Mr. Tuck maintained the finding was wrong in law. It seemed to him the magistrate had either misread tho facts or given a meaning to tho word shifts, which it could not possibly have. Mr. Wright said the shifts were only worked for three weeks during a transition period. " It seems to bo rather a ridiculous agreement when it comes to working out the shifts," said His Honor. "We will struggle with it."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18895, 18 December 1924, Page 14
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