MEAT WORKS' EMPLOYEES
INCREASED WAGES,
'"A serious:industrial trouble has been threatening for weeks past in the frozen meat works at Ngahauranga and Potone. ■ Early in the season the employees '(other than slaughtermen) • made a demand for increased'wages and better .'conditions of work. After preliminary negotiations, it appeared that the dispute would have to go to the Arbitration Court. A few weeks ago however, it was announced that the Court would not sit in Wellington until May, and as the meat industry is a •seasonal, trade; this, would have meant ■tliat the season would have been practically over before the demands of the union could have been considered by the Court. The union has sought to discover some means of settling the dispute during the course of: the current sea-son, and negotiations entered into .by the union with the employers reached a successful conclusion, last night. ■, The new agreement provides in effect for. an.-increase of wages for all workens rin the; companies' employ of one shilling per day; This does not apply to the,slaughtermen, who are piece- ■ rate workers.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 6
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178MEAT WORKS' EMPLOYEES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2723, 18 March 1916, Page 6
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