FOOTWEAR WORKERS’ AWARD REVIEWED
At the end of last January the Arbitration Court'heard the New Zealand footwear manufacturing employees’ dispute. Claims were made for increases in wage rates on behalf of the workers, but no evidence whatever was called in support of the claims. The court adjusted the wage rates in line with the adjustments which have been made to most other awards and industrial agreements following the pronouncement of March 17, 1945. The court subsequently received communications from representative organisations and a number of individual employers which satisfied it that all the parties to the award were desirous that it should be reviewed by the court in so far as the rates of wages of adult workers are concerned. The application was heard on November 5. The court, in its judgment, states that it is satisfied from the evidence that there are'varying degrees of dexterity in the operations carried on in footwear factories, and has endeavoured to frame a simple classification, with the object of giving some recognition to that fact.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 8
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172FOOTWEAR WORKERS’ AWARD REVIEWED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 8
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