Tearoom award talks fail
PA Wellington Negotiations for the tearoom and restaurant award broke down in Auckland yesterday, said the Hotel Workers’ Union. The award covers about 17,000 workers throughout New Zealand in restaurants, cafeterias, and fastfood outlets. Selective industrial action would now take place. The present base rate in the award is $4.83 an hour compared with the average New Zealand wage last October of $8.46 an hour.
The employers’ final offer was 92c an hour conditional on the abolition of the four-hour guaranteed minimum shift, said the union advocate, Mr Rick Barker. If accepted, this would have meant a reduction in hours for thousands of jobs in the industry. “This group of workers can no longer afford to be treated as paupers subsidising the restaurant industry of New Zealand,” said Mr Barker.
“The industry is healthy and profitable, in many cases dominated by multinational food chains and large entrepreneurial yacht-owning restaurateurs.” Mr Barker said workers in the industry were not prepared to accept less than subsistence wages.
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Press, 13 February 1986, Page 8
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