RADIO EMPLOYEES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22431, 29 May 1936, Page 12

RADIO EMPLOYEES

UNION FORMED IN AUCKLAND PART OF NATIONAL SCHEME Formal application has been made for the formation of an Auckland Radio Employees' Industrial Union of Workers. The formation of a union to include all those employed in the radio industry and services in New Zealand has been projected for some time, and work in this connection proceeded for several months at the beginning of the year. It became necessary later to amend the plan for the formation of a national union, on account of many applications of questionable bona fulos being made. To secure national union registration, it became necessary to establish local unions in four industrial centres, and this plan is now being followed. The organisation of unions in Auckland and Wellington, as units in the scheme, has already been accomplished, their respective memberships being 230 and 250. The Auckland union will embrace several branches of the industry, each to he self-governing within wide limits. The different sections arc manufacturing, assembling and testing radio and speech input equipment; A station broadcasting staffs: B station broadcasting staffs- radio servicing; and first-class P.M.G. certificated marine radio operators.