DISPUTE OVER WAGES

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20260, 21 March 1934, Page 7

DISPUTE OVER WAGES

Position of Female Lift Attendants. To consider the point of wages of female lift attendants, the second Conciliation Council hearing of the cleaners and liftmen's dispute between the Christchurch retail shops and the Christchurch Retail Shop Assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers took place this morning, before Mr S. Ritchie, Conciliation Commissioner. Shortly after the parties met an adjournment was made until 2.30 in the afternoon. Messrs H. C. Hassall, F. B. Cresswell and D. I. Macdonald were the assessors for the employers, and Messrs C. E. Tubb and R. A. Bradbury and Miss L. T. Nolan were the employees’ assessors. The previous hearing of the dispute ■was taken on March 1, when an agreement was reached on all points but wages of the female lift attendants. The union representatives were prepared to accept £2 10s a week, but the employers’ assessors would not agree to more than £1 15s and the adjournment until to-day was granted in order to allow the union to consider the wages point. The union agreed for the first time to the employment of female lift attendants at wages less than those paid to men attendants, provided the rates were such as might be considered reasonable.