CREAMERY WORKERS
NEW AWARD APPLIED FOR. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Application was made to the Arbitration Court this morning for a new award by the Auckland Cream Ties, Butter and Cheese Industrial Union of Workers.
Mr W. E. Anderson, in opposing the union’s demands for higher wages, said that costs had increased by 47.3 per cent, for butter factories and 32.2 per cent, for cheese factories. The employers strongly urged that the Court should settle the dispute on the basis of the 1929 award, which was in force in 1931, with the hours of work recently ordered by the Court incorporated and a few minor alterations considered necessary to meet changed conditions. The employers asked the Court to define the term “work over any six days of the week.” It was also absolutely necessary that the employers should have the right to employ labour on the seventh day in ease of emergency.
Mr John opposed this in his closing address. He stressed the saving dairy factories would make through having their pfiroduce purchased f.o.b. and the increasing standard of scientific training among the workers. The Court reserved its decision. — (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 September 1936, Page 8
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