HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS. The Wellington District Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Workers' Union will hold its annual meeting on Monday, Juno 2, and part of the business will be to discuss a proposal that the workers invite tho employers to a conference upon wages. , The secretary of the union (Mr. H. O'Malley) informed a Dominion - representative yesterday that the hotel workers in the country area of Wellington industrial district 'had very recently obtained, under agreements made at sittings of tho Conciliation Council, a rate of wages considerably better than 'that at present ruling in the city. They had, moreover, secured equal pay for equal work for women and , men in all kitchens. In Wellington, female kitchenhands were paid equally with the men only in licensed houses, and tho city union was anxious to see abolished the present three-quarters rate applying to ,many of its women members. The country agreement referred to above comes into force on .Inly J. It will be made into an award at the uext sittings of the Arbitration Court, .wherever they aro held. Mr. O'Malley said yesterday that his union would shortly establish permanent officers in Palmerston North. Napier, and Wangauui.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 9
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197HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORKERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 9
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