SHOP ASSISTANTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 6

SHOP ASSISTANTS.

♦ NO INCREASE OF WAGES. (ritBSS ASSOCIATION TELF.GEAif.) WELLINGTON, December 9. The Arbitration Court has given its decision in the Dominion shop assistants' case. With minor exceptions, tho award is based on the provisions of the expired award. A majority of the Court decided it could not grant an increase in wages, owing to a separate union, which is not a party to the dispute, having been registered for the Gisborne district. No Gisborne employers have been added as parties. There is nothing; to prevent the Auckland Union from having members in the Gisborne district, but it cannot apply for an award covering that district unless the local union is joined as a pnrtv The employees' representative dissents from this attitude, as well as on the question of wages. He says that registration of the union gives that union the right to apply for an award, but does not give tho right of exclusion to tho employers. It might bailpen that a new union of fifteen members would be registered. They were a very small minority in the district, yet the employers could secure exclusion. The award will operate on December 29th. Rnotilii, Ohakuno, Taihape, and Marton ehnll observe Kaster Tuesday as a holiday, instead of Kaster Saturday; and Wangnnui and Rotorua shall observe the Tuesday following Labour Day instead of Easter Saturday.