NO SUNDAY WORK
COOL STORE DISPUTE THIRD CONSECUTIVE OCCASION For the third consecutive Sunday no work will be done to-morrow by the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company's cool store workers in the two cool stores on the waterfront, whoso dispute over rates of pay and conditions of Sunday work has not yet been adjusted. Two overseas ships will be loading on Sunday and sufficient butter and cheese for ono of them to complete loading will he brought out of the stores today. and arrangements have been made to continue loading the other. The claims of the men, who receive 5s 9d an hour with a two-hour guaranteed minimum for Sunday work, were for the same conditions as waterside workers, who receive 7s lOjd an hour for working frozen cargo on Sundays, with a minimum of eight hours' work. This means that the claim is for a minimum of £3 3s for Sundays.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 6
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151NO SUNDAY WORK New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 6
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