NEW UNION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22532, 24 September 1936, Page 12

NEW UNION

FREEZING INDUSTRY CLERICAL WORKERS I CHANGE FROM GUILD STATUS A Dominion union of clerks and typists employed by freezing companies and meat exporters is to be formed, and rules wero approved by a meeting of about 60 last night. Mr. F. G. Murray presided. Thero lias been a New Zealand Freezing and Allied Industries' Guild since 1920, but until recently it has functioned mainly in the South Island. It was announced last night that the registrar of industrial unions had advised that the guild would be registered as a union on the filing of suitable rules. When the rules have been approved in other centres they will be filed and the guild will go out of existence. The union, to be known as the New Zealand Freezing and Related Industries' Clerical Officers Industrial Union of Workers, will embrace the whole Dominion and is expected to have a membership of between. 700 and 800. Membership will be limited to clerical workers in tho employ of companies which hold a licence under the Slaughtering and Inspection Act or a meat export licence. The application for registration as a eoparato union was made owing to the peculiar nature of the industry, particularly as regards seasonal and fluctuating work. Mr. Murray was elected chairman of the Auckland district, and Mr. A. Bryan district secretary. A committee of seven was appointed.