JOB ACTION THREATENED
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Hotel Workers' Ultimatum To Employers
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WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. An ultimatum .was • communicated to officials of the licensed hotel trade today to negotiate a new award incorporating „ the clairps Of the workers by December 24, the day after the cUrrent award expires, or "job action" would be applied to enforce the demands. This was the outcomg of a stopwork meeting of bar ro'om workers m Wellington, at the Trades Hail this morning, to hear a report from the assessors for the New Zealand Federated Hotel, Restaurant and Related Trades Employees' Union on the breakdown of the conciliation proceedings for a new award. Barmaids and barmen, said by the union to number betweeh 300 and 400, who attended the meet-, ing, unanimously resolved to instruct the union officials to notify employers that, failing efforts to resume negotiations to settle the dispute on or before Wednesday next, "job action" would be taken. The union said the resolution meant that in the absence of an intimation from the employers(that negotiations would be resumed within the next week, bar room workers would* hold. another stopwork meeting and the form of job action to be taken would be decided at that meeting.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 December 1948, Page 5
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