STRONG DISAPPROVAL
INSURANCE WORKERS P.A. WELLINGTON, Oct. 10. Members of the Wellington district of the New Zealand General Insurance Industrial Union left their places of employment this morning, and, numbering 200 and more, protested against the proposed State monopoly of workers’ compensation business.
“ Let us shut our offices and march, not a few hundreds of us only, but the whole of us, to Parliament House,” declared one speaker. “Let us make a strong protest.” The meeting expressed fear that insurance workers’ jobs would be jeopardised if the State monopoly were created.
A resolution was adopted that, as workers and members of an industrial union, they felt the same courtesy extended to other unions in consulting them when any legislation affecting them was brought down should have been granted. “In our case,” it was stated, “the Minister chose to ignore us entirely.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26589, 11 October 1947, Page 8
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