DENTAL MECHANICS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20585, 26 November 1936, Page 12

DENTAL MECHANICS

APPLICATION FOR AWARD By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, November 25 Approximately 200 dentists in the Auckland industrial district are involved in the dental assistants and technicians dispute which will be heard in conciliation proceedings at Auckland on December 8. The citation prepared by the Union, which is the first of its kind in New Zealand, discloses a claim for a 37J hours week of five days and a minimum scale of wages for male and female workers. The Union claims that all adult employees doing plastic work, metal work or vulcanite and metal work should receive not less than £7 a week, while those doing vulcanite work should receive at least £6/5/- a week. A head mechanic should receive 5/- a week extra for each mechanic or apprentice employed in the establishment. Female dental assistants beginning work at under 18 years of age, are rated at £l/5/- for the first six months, rising by 5/- each half-year until at two years they receive £2 a week. After that the Union asks that these workers should be regarded as senior assistants in receipt of not less than £2/5/- a week. All work performed by employees in excess of the hours provided in the citation to be paid at the rate of time and half for the first two hours and double time thereafter. The Union claims two weeks holiday a year.