WAREHOUSE WORKERS
40-HOUR .WEEK SOUGHT CONCILIATION EFFORTS HEARING IN COMMITEE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. The Conciliation Council is hearing a case put by federated storemen and packers, other than retail shops, and warehouse smployees, other than drivers and clerks. The applicants seek a 40hour work week with wages ranging up to £6 10s weekly. The employers, in counter-proposals, ask that the term “warehouseman” shall mean any workers, except a storeman or packer, engaged in any capacity in connection with the reception, display, sale, dispatch, or delivery of goods in or for tlie establishments of those employers bound by ‘award wages up to £4 5s weekly.
Protests were made on behalf of Otago, Southland and Auckland soft goods warehousemen to being included in the award asked for by the applicant union, and reasons were given for the objections made.
The commissioner said the council could not go into the question of registration. That was a matter that must he decided by the Arbitration Court, to which the protests would be forwarded. The heating is proceeding in committee.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 15
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