OVERTIME DISPUTE
DAIRY PRODUCE WORKERS A decision not. to work overtime in future, or until a verba! agreement which they allege was made between the men and the employers is carried out, was reached at a luncheon meeting Yfsterdnv of chamber bands employed by the Auckland I'armors Freezing Company. The men, numbering about. 100, are engaged at King's Whorf and the new export wharf, and are concerned in the loading "1 dairy produce only. Alleging that about three weeks ago it was agreed that the minimum period for overtime should be two hours, the men state that one night last week they worked tor only an hour and a-(|uartcr be lore being signed off. I lit i 1 then, they say, the agreement had been honoured. "Anv talk oi an agreement to work for ts\ o hours, ntinimu: overtime is a figment ot somebody'.-, imagination, said the manager of the company, Mr. A (i. lsrown, vestcrday. The men were employed at ah hourly rate of pay, he added, and their award provided for a -11-hour week. No arrangement had been made by the company outside the terms of t lie award.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23616, 28 March 1940, Page 7
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191OVERTIME DISPUTE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23616, 28 March 1940, Page 7
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